Science
A new age of learning, science and art in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
The science of planning and following a route
What is navigation?
This nation financed Christopher Columbus' expedition
What is Spain?
Juan Ponce de Leon was looking for this mythic fable granting youth to the old
What is the Fountain of Youth?
This disease, brought by Europeans, killed many indigenous people in the new world
What is small pox?
He started a School of Navigation in Portugal
Who is Prince Henry?
A new kind of ship that was faster and could carry more cargo
What is a caravel?
Despite thinking he was in Asia, Columbus actually landed in this area after being blown off course during a storm.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan (Hernando) Cortes?
To rebel against the captain of an expedition
What is mutiny?
He created interest and need for Asian goods with his book
Who is Marco Polo?
A tool for finding direction
What is the compass?
Name 3 motives of Columbus for his expedition west
What is to claim land, find a water route to Asia, to gain fame and fortune, and spread Catholic religion?
The first European land claim in what would eventually become the United States
What is Florida?
Name of alternate route sailing west to Asia to avoid South America and the Spanish
What is the Northwest Passage?
A series of land routes between China and Italy used by traders
What is the Silk Road?
An instrument used to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and stars
What is an astrolabe?
This man believed Columbus had found new land, not a westward route to Asia
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was renamed this by the Spanish
What is Mexico City?
An English explorer who made 4 voyages looking for the Northwest Passage to Asia
Who is Henry Hudson?
He invented the printing press making books more readily available
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
Trips taken with the goal of exploring
What is an expedition?
The first to get credit for circumnavigating the globe, this man was killed in the Philippine Islands
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The name for all land claimed by the Spanish in the new world
What is New Spain?
France claimed land along the St. Lawrence River and parts of Canada thanks to this French explorer
Who is Jacques Cartier?