People
Vocabulary
Advances
Portugal
This and That
100
An Italian explorer who walked thousands of miles on foot to reach Asia.
Who was Marco Polo?
100
An adventure story about the brave deeds of people long ago.
What is a saga?
100
An instrument used to find direction.
What is a compass?
100
He set up schools to train sailors how to properly navigate
Who was Prince Henry?
100
This is what got Columbus interested in sailing and exploring the world
What is The Travels of Marco Polo?
200
An Italian explorer who sailed west from Italy and landed in N. America by mistake
Who was Columbus?
200
Maker of maps
What is a cartographer?
200
The solutions to the lands of Europe previously being ruled by warring nobles
What is the land was now divided into countries which were now ruled by monarchs?
200
This is the reason why Prince Henry's crews chose to stay io Africa to trade.
What were slaves?
200
The problems with Behaim's glode were......
What were the map was missing 4 continents, Africa was wrong size and shape and the Earth was too small
300
A Viking who founded the colony of Vinland
Who is Leif Erikson?
300
A small round hill
What is a knoll?
300
This made ships move with and against the wind
What is made a new kind of sail, no londer squared
300
He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and reached the Indies.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
300
The island that Colmbus and his men landed on was called...?
What is Guanahani
400
Explorer from Portugal who was known as "the explorer who stayed home."
Who was Prince Henry?
400
Kings and queens
What were monarchs?
400
This is why sailors from Europe didn't get as lost as before
What is more accurate maps?
400
Columbus and his men had doubts about this new land because...?
What is there were no palaces of gold, no jewels, no perfumes, no spices, people spoke a strange language and were naked?
500
He created the first globe
Who was Martin Behaim?
500
The study of how to plan and control the course of a ship.
What is navigation?
500
When the Turks captured Constantinople and stopped European explorers from trading with Asia, they decided to do this...?
What is find a water route to Asia?
500
The reason why many European explorers chose not to go all the way to Asia for trading
What is the journey was too difficult and took too much time?
500
The things the Europeans wanted most from the "Orients: was...?
What were gold, jewels, perfumes, silk and most importantly spices?
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