Famous Firsts
This Italian explorer sailed west for Spain in 1492 in search of a direct water route to Asia.
who is Christopher Columbus?
This primary tool helped early sailors find their direction by pointing toward magnetic north.
What is a compass?
What is scurvy?
This European nation was the early leader in maritime exploration, launching systematic sea voyages down the African coast under figures like Prince Henry the Navigator.
What is Portugal?
what tribe lived in long houses?
what is the Haudenosaunee?
This English explorer landed on the coast of Newfoundland in 1497 and claimed land for England.
who is John Cabot?
This infamous 1494 agreement brokered by the Pope divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This simple hourglass device was frequently used aboard Renaissance ships to measure increments of time.
What is a sandglass?
Jacques Cartier sailed for this country when he explored the St. Lawrence River and laid claims in Canada.
What is France?
did the anishanabe live near water?
yes.
This Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sailing completely around the southern tip of Africa.
who is Vasco da Gama?
Henry Hudson explored a major New York river and a bay in North America while searching for this legendary passage to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Many early European expeditions were driven by the trio of motivations known as "God, Glory, and..." this.
What is Gold?
This Dutch-sponsored English navigator sailed the Half Moon into New York Harbor in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
what tribe had clan mothers?
what is Haudenosaunee?
an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs.
who is Christopher columbus?
though he was killed in the Philippines, the expedition led by this explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Sailors dreaded this psychological conditionâbrought on by months of isolation, sensory deprivation, and staring at an empty horizonâwhich often led to extreme depression or madness.
What is nostalgia (or "calenture" / sea madness)?
Which Portuguese monarch dispatched Pedro Ălvares Cabral on his 1500 expedition that drifted westward and officially claimed Brazil for the Portuguese Crown?
who is King Manuel 1?
what are the three main nations?
what is the Mikmaq Haudenosaunee and Anishanabe?
This Spanish explorer was the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World in 1513.
who is Who is Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa?
whats the name of Goivanni Cabotos ship.
the Mathew?
To preserve beef and pork for multi-year voyages without refrigeration, the meat had to be heavily packed into barrels using massive quantities of this mineral.
What is salt (or rock salt)?
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) reached the coast of North America in 1497 under the English flag. Which English monarch granted his royal patent and authorized the expedition?
who is King Henry VII?
what tribe let female be in charge?
what is the Haudenosaunee?