Hodgepodge
Technology
Navigation
Exploring America
Columbus
100
Called the Navigator.
Who was Prince Henry
100
The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is technology?
100
He started a school of navigation.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
100
Vasco de Balboa.
Who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?
100
Where Columbus got his idea of reaching the east by sailing west.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
Map makers, shipbuilders and sailors.
What is who was invited to the school of navigation?
200
This instrument allowed sailors to know in which direction they were sailing.
What is the compass?
200
Wrote a book that inspired early exploration.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
Ferdinand Magellan
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth?
200
The first person to land on the North American Continent.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
300
The purpose of the early explorers.
What is to find a shorter route to Asia?
300
This invention allowed sailors to sail farther, faster and safer.
What is better ships?
300
Vasco da Gama.
Who is the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope all the way to India?
300
The name given, by Magellan, to the newly discovered ocean.
What is the Pacific?
300
August 3, 1492
What is when Columbus sailed from Spain.
400
People who travel from place to place.
What are nomads?
400
These people developed better maps.
What are geographers?
400
Bartholomeu Diaz
Who was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
400
Amerigo Vespucci.
What is the person the America's are named after?
400
Spanish leaders who financed Columbus' exploration.
Who is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
500
Divided the world in half between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
500
This instrument allowed sailors to calculate their latitude while on the ocean.
What is the astrolabe?
500
The reason Portugal lead the way in early exploration and navigation.
What is they had no port on the Mediterrian Sea.
500
Where Magellan was killed.
What are the Philippines?
500
Columbus' three ships.
What were the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.
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