Explorers
Vocabulary
Technology
The Silk Road
Maps
100
Named San Salvador for Spain and thought he landed in India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
An area of land owned by another country.
What is a colony?
100
A tool that helped sailors navigate using the sun and the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
100
A long road where merchants walked from Europe to Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
100
Vasco de Gama traveled on these oceans to reach India. (See Map 1)
What are the Atlantic and the Pacific?
200
Set out to circumnavigate the world but found disaster in the Phillipines. Only 18 of his 250 man crew survived to return to Spain.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
To sail completely around something.
What is circumnavigate?
200
Name at least 2 things that were brought back from China.
What is paper, printing and gunpowder?
200
These goods were traded along the Silk Road.
What are silks and spices?
200
Vasco de Gama traveled in this direction to reach India. See Map 1.
What is South and East?
300
This conquistador traveled to Mexico to find gold and ended up defeating the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
An outbreak of disease.
What is an epidemic?
300
A tool sailors used to navigate that did NOT use the sun or stars.
What is a compass?
300
People and animals traveled in these on the Silk Road.
What are caravans?
300
Ferdinand Maggellan traveled this direction to get to Asia. (See Map 2)
What is West?
400
This spanish explorer was searching for the "fountain of youth" and in the process claimed Florida for Spain.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
400
Someone who sells and buys goods. For example, Marco Polo.
What is a merchant?
400
Sailors used this invention to help defend themselves against attacks from other ships.
What is gunpowder?
400
Very finely woven cloth.
What is silk?
400
The Portuguese name for the tip of Africa. (See Map 1)
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
500
This spanish explorer wanted to find "cities of gold" in the new land.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
500
A spanish explorer who was eager to find wealth and fame.
What is a conquistador?
500
This invention helped with spreading ideas through books. It allowed many books to be printed faster.
What is the printing press?
500
A merchant from Venice who traveled to China.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
Magellan's voyage took this many years. (See Map 2)
What is about 13 years?
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