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100
What is the name of the person who set up schools for sailors?
Prince Henry the Navigator
100
What is the name of the King and Queen who financed Columbus' voyages?
Ferdinand and Isabella
100
Who is the explorer who sailed around the tip of Africa then turned around and returned to tell the King what he saw?
Bart Dias
100
What general direction did Columbus sail? North South East or West?
West
100

What is the term for the trading of goods, ideas, and disease from the old world to the new world?

the Columbian Exchange

200
What ocean or sea borders Portugal?
Atlantic
200
What religion did the Spanish want to share with the newly discovered lands?
Christianity
200

Where did the compass originate?

China

200
What is the name for the region where the crusades took place?
the Middle East
200

Which church was the most powerful in Medieval Europe?

Roman Catholic church
300

What body of water borders Portugal to the west?

Atlantic Ocean

300
What did Columbus call the people he met in the new world?
Indians
300
Which country sponsored Columbus?
Spain
300
What is the name of the time period of studying classical literature and arts?
the Renaissance
300

Who was Mali's most famous ruler who was the wealthiest person in the world?

Mansa Musa

400
Portugal wanted gold from these ancient African trading empires?
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
400
What ocean did Columbus cross?
the Atlantic
400
What is the name for a specially designed sailboat that can travel faster than earlier ships?
caravel
400

What tool helps sailors find their latitude by using the stars?

an astrolabe

400
What is the name of the series of wars fought to gain control of the Holy Land?
the Crusades
500
What is the name of the point at the southern tip of Africa where Dias turned around to return to Portugal?
Cape of Good Hope
500
Who named the Pacific Ocean?
Magellan
500
What term means to sail completely around the world?
circumnavigate
500

What tool did sailors use to determine the direction they were going?

a compass

500
What is a monarch?
a king or queen
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