Explorers & Routes
This explorer crossed the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Caribbean.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Sailors used this magnetic tool to find direction.
This exchange connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa through the movement of goods, people, ideas, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is an area ruled by a country far away.
What is a colony?
On a timeline what comes first 1492 or 1419?
What is 1419?
This Portuguese explorer rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
What is latitude?
Name two of these that traveled from the Americas to Europe: corn, wheat, potatoes, horses.
What are corn and potatoes?
This is a group of lands and peoples ruled by one power.
What is an empire?
An explorer sails from Europe around the southern tip of Africa. Which ocean is east of Africa?
What is the Indian Ocean?
This Norse explorer reached North America around the year 1000.
Who was Leif Eriksson?
Prince Henry supported navigation to find and control these paths used to move goods.
What are trade routes?
Name two of these that traveled from Europe to the Americas: tomatoes, pigs, wheat, peppers.
What are pigs and wheat?
This word means a Spanish conqueror who took land and wealth by force.
What is a conquistador?
A map key labels Coronado's route through the Southwest and de Soto's through the Southeast. Who explored the Southwest?
Who was Fransisco de Coronado?
This explorer reached India by sailing around Africa in 1498.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
What are room for supplies and different-shaped sails to use the wind?
Which trade connects goods from opposite sides of the Atlantic: corn for potatoes, or corn for horses?
What is corn for horses? Corn came from the Americas and horses came from Europe.
Put these roles in the chapter's sequence of arrival: officials, explorers, conquistadors.
A timeline lists one voyage around 1000 and three voyages between 1488 and 1498. Which period shows more listed voyages?
What is 1488-1498? It lists three voyages, compared with one around 1000.
Put these four in order by the start of their journeys: Coronado, Columbus, Dias, Cortés.
What is Dias, Columbus, Cortés, Coronado?
Explain how a compass and a mariner's astrolabe help with different navigation jobs.
What is a compass showed direction, while an astrolabe helped determine latitude using the sun or stars?
Explain one benefit and one harmful effect of the Columbian Exchange.
Hint: One benefit and one harm.
What are new foods or expanded diets, and disease, slavery, forced labor, or loss of land?
Spain needed wealth to pay for wars. Explain how this could lead rulers to fund expeditions.
What is rulers hoped expeditions would bring riches and resources to help pay those costs?
A route map shows one explorer traveling farther than another. Does this prove the first controlled more land? Explain.
What is no? Routes show travel paths, but do not by themselves prove land control.