Exploring
Who's accounts of travels inspired many explorers?
Marco Polo
Henry Hudson
Sailed up river into what is now New York and found an inland sea in Canada.
First permanent settlement in North America
Jamestown, Virginia
What tools (2) helped navigators know where they were and where they were going?
astrolabe and magnetic compass
a mapmaker
Cartographer
Where did Christopher Columbus end up? (first voyage)
Bahamas (first voyage)
Bartolomeu Dias was the first to reach what?
Cape of Good Hope.
Jacques Cartier claimed for France
Canada around Montreal
Why did Columbus call the native people "Indians"
He thought he had reached the East Indies
Colonization
Pacific Ocean
Attempted to end the enslavement of Indians.
Las Casas
The Lost Colony
Roanoke
Who took over the Spice Trade after Portugal
the Netherlands
Indigenous
Native to a particular region or environment.
Vasco da Gama explored where?
Eastern coast of Africa
Leadership for Portuguese exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
What is the Middle Passage?
the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to Americas
The Treaty of Tordesillas did what?
divided land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
circumnavigate
to travel completely around something (such as earth), especially by water.
Pedro Alvares Cabral ended up here instead of India.
Brazil
Bartolomeu Dias discovery led to what?
route to Indian Ocean
Who established a colony in Nova Scotia
Samuel de Champlain
In as much detail as possible describe one of the explorers. AKA tell me everything written on your chart for one person.
Answers Vary
Sextant
a navigational instrument that uses a telescope and scale to determine latitude and longitude.