Explorers
Vocabulary
Artifacts
Artifacts
Miscellaneous
100
Christopher Columbus
What is the Italian that was sponsored by Spain on his first voyage to the New World? He was looking for a route to Asia by sailing west.
100
Contagious Diseases
What is a sickness that can pass from one person to another by germs
100
Uses a magnetic needle to show direction
What is a compass?
100
Tobacco
What is the addictive crop believed to have medicinal qualities?
100
East Indies
What is Southeast Asia including India Indonesia and Malaysia?
200
Juan Ponce de Leon
What is the name of the conquistador that discovered Puerto Rico and Florida?
200
colonies
What is places ruled by another country, not their own people?
200
A symbol of honor and power, it was used to claim ownership
What is the importance of flags in exploration?
200
To build a country's wealth and treasury
What is the reason gold and silver was important to explorer?
200
a Spanish explorer
What is a conquistador?
300
The Fountain of Youth
What is the thing Ponce de Leon was searching for but never found?
300
Northwest Passage
What is a shortcut from Europe to Asia through North America?
300
to spread Christianity
What is the importance of the Bible in exploration?
300
A crop grown in large quantity and sold for profit
What is a cash crop
400
Gold, God, and Glory
What is the most important motivating factor for explorers?
400
migration
What is movement of people from one area of the world to a new home in another area of the world?
400
astrolabe
What is a tool that allowed sailors to sail accurately by day and night?
400
Compass, astrolabe, and maps
What are three forms of technology used in exploration?
500
He "discovered a new world" and kicked off the Age of Exploration in the 1500s
What is the impact of Christopher Columbus' voyage?
500
St. Augustine
What is the nation's oldest continually occupied European settlement?
500
Showed physical features, ocean currents and shorelines; Explorers mapped new findings for future exporation and settlement
What is the importance of maps in exploration?
500
New and useful food and products
What is two things explorers hoped to find that they could bring back to Europe?
500
stars and the horizon; latitude
What did the astrolabe use to determine location and what did it find?
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