Explorers
This Italian explorer is credited with discovering America in 1492.
What is Christopher Columbus?
This was the main trade route between Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This type of ship, by the Portuguese, was designed for long voyages with its triangular sails.
What is a caravel?
This country was famously discovered by Vasco da Gama’s sea route around Africa.
What is India?
What is India?
Columbus’s voyages led to this age of European exploration and colonization.
What is the Age of Exploration?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail directly from Europe to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This sea route was searched for as a faster way to Asia by heading through or around North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Columbus sailed on this flagship on his 1492 voyage.
What is the Santa Maria?
This continent was first mistaken for Asia by Columbus on his voyage.
What is North America?
The exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old World and the New World is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This explorer’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Explorers traveled this route by sailing around Africa to reach Asia.
What is the Cape of Good Hope route?
This ship carried the first English Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
Henry Hudson’s exploration led to the discovery of this large Canadian bay.
What is Hudson Bay?
This term refers to the forced journey of Africans across the Atlantic to the New World.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This Spanish conquistador is known for conquering the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This river route was a major path for French explorers in North America.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This ship, led by Francis Drake, was used during his circumnavigation of the Earth.
What is the Golden Hind?
Spain and Portugal were the first European countries to explore and colonize these two continents extensively.
What are South America and Central America?
This word describes the belief that one's own culture is superior, often a result of European colonization.
What is ethnocentrism?
This English explorer claimed parts of Canada for England.
Who is John Cabot?
This route was used to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This ship was part of Magellan’s fleet and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
What is the Victoria?
The search for gold in this region famously led to the 'El Dorado' legend and exploration.
What is South America?
This introduced livestock, crops, and technology changes to the Americas and transformed Native American life.
What is European colonization?