Vocabulary 1
People who buy and sell goods.
Merchant
To give financial support to another person or cause.
Patron
This explorer sailed from Norway to Iceland and then to Greenland.
Eric the Red
Who became Christopher Columbus's patrons?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Priests persuaded many Native American people into doing what?
The process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land.
Navigation
A group of nations or peoples ruled by a single group or leader.
Empire
This explorer was likely the first European to land in North America and founded a settlement in 1001 in what is today Canada.
Leif Ericsson
Columbus thought he had landed near India and named the region what?
West Indies and called the people Indians
Why did most American Indians die from diseases such as Malaria, Smallpox, and Measles?
The did not have an immune defense against these diseases.
A navigation tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
Astrolabe
To sail completely around the world.
Circumnavigate
How did the invention of the astrolabe help sailors?
Telling them how far north or south of the equator they had sailed.
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Which items did the Americas introduce to Europe?
A smaller, lighter sailing ship with triangular sails.
Caravel
A settlement or area far from the country that rules it.
Colony
Who started a school to teach mapmaking and navigation in about 1419.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who was searching for the Fountain of Youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Which items did Europe introduce to the Americas?
Wheat, rice, peaches, lettuce, onions, coffee, bananas, sugar cane, horses, pigs, chickens, and cattle.
Technology
A movement of people, animals, plants, cultures, and even diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Columbian Exchange
Which explorer finally sailed around the tip of Africa and named it the Cape of good Hope.
Bartolomeu Dias
Which explorer took the Aztec leader prisoner and conquered the Aztec empire?
Hernan Cortes
Sugar Cane because the American Indians were forced to labor in the fields.