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Who's the man?
Say What?
You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
100
A tool which came from China that shows which direction is North.
What is a magnetic compass?
100
The treacherous trade route between Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
100
One reason he wanted to explore was to claim land and make colonies in Virginia.
Who is Christopher Newports?
100
A person who makes maps or charts
What is a cartographer?
100
Columbus tried to reach this area to bring back gold, silk and spices.
What is Asia?
200
A science used by sailors to find their place and plan their route.
What is navigation?
200
Where Christopher Columbus actually landed?
What is San Salvador?
200
France was this man's sponsor.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
200
People who start new businesses
What are entrepreneurs?
200
Jacques Cartier was sponsored by which country?
What is France?
300
A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location.
What is an astrolabe?
300
Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European to land here.
What is Florida?
300
The man who helped sponsor Columbus's expedition to what he thought was Asia?
Who is King Ferdinand
300
Distance north or the south of the equator usually measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
300
Vasco de Gama was the first European to reach this continent by sea.
What is India?
400
Ships with better sails built by Europeans.
What are caravels?
400
Jacques Cartier explored this area near Quebec, Canada?
What is the St. Lawrence River Valley?
400
The man whose name "America" was named after?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
An area or place ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
400
Francisco Pizarro conquered this Empire in what is now called Peru.
What is Inca?
500
A new "explosive" technology, still used today, which came from China to Europe.
What is gunpowder?
500
The _________ is the location on the globe which separates east and west to determine longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
500
He wrote a book describing Asia's cultures which created a growing interest in Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
To sail around something
What is circumnavigation?
500
The first European explorer to cross the Isthmus of Panama and see the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the Americas.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
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