Early Explorers
A Portuguese sailor who sailed around the tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
A person who buys and sells goods for profit.
Merchant
Trade with Asia made people ________.
Rich
invented the magnetic compass
Chinese
A Spanish conquistador who led a journey to Mexico.
Hernan Cortes
Getting, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves.
Slave Trade
European rulers wanted to find______.
A sea route to Asia
The needle of the compass always points______?
North
Explorer who sailed for Spain to find a new route to Asia by crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Christopher Columbus
The process of planning a route and finding one's location.
Navigation
lead this search to find a way to reach Asia by water.
Portugal
Used to tell latitude and longitude
Sextant
A Portuguese explorer whose fleet sailed completely around the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
An instrument used in navigation that measures the sun and the stars.
Astrolabe
These rulers encouraged exploration
Portuguese
Invention of the Chinese and became useful to explorers
Gunpowder
The son of Portugal's King.
Prince Henry
A small, fast sailing ship.
Caravel
He wanted to know more about the world around him and to make money by sending fleets to
Capture African gold and slaves
Provided latitude at sea and exact measurement of time.
Chronometer