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Which direction did Columbus sail to try to find the Spice Islands?
West
Who sailed west for Spain in 1492 and landed in the Bahamas and found North America.
Christopher Columbus
Which country used enslaved people to work in gold and silver mines on islands in the Caribbean?
Spain
What animal pelt was the most valued of them all?
beaver
What does circumnavigate mean?
To travel completely around something, such as the Earth.
Which Ocean did daGama sail across before reaching India?
The Indian Ocean
Who sailed into a huge inland sea in what is now known as Canada? (HINT: it is now named for him)
Henry Hudson
Which country sent a sailor to look for a Northwest Passage to Asia?
England
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement that divided the world between which two countries?
Portugal and Spain
Why did Columbus call the people Indians that he encountered in the Bahamas?
He thought he was in India
What is the name of the strait that runs along the bottom of South America?
HINT: It was named after the European explorer who first crossed it.
Strait of Magellan
Which Portuguese explorer sailed all the way around Africa and across the Indian Ocean?
daGama
When de La Salle sailed down the Mississippi River, which country did he claim the land for?
What is scurvy?
a disease cause by a lack of vitamin C
This Portuguese man encouraged the sharing of maps and created schools to teach skills such as shipbuilding and navigation.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Which country settled in the northern part of North American and made a lot of money in the fur trade?
France
This Spanish priest spoke out against the mistreatment of the indigenous people in the Americas?
de Las Casas
Which country began to set up colonies along the coast of North America?
England
This navigational tool uses a magnetized pointer to show direction.
Magnetic Compass
This country took over the slave trade from Portugal in the 1600s.
The Netherlands or the Dutch
Which huge ocean did Magellan cross that he thought was going to be much smaller?
Pacific Ocean
Whose voyage was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which country eventually set up colonies in the country that is now Brazil?
Portugal
What route did John Cabot take to try to find the Spice Islands?
Northwest
What is an archipelago?
A group of islands