Vasco Da Gama
The disease transmitted by a mosquito that Da Gama died from.
What is Malaria?
This is Leif Erikson's nickname.
What is Leif the Lucky?
This continent is named after Vespucci.
What is America?
Magellan discovered this trade route.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
This was the most important thing for sailors to have amongst each other on ships.
What is trust?
Vasco Da Gama discovered this.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
The castaway that Erikson found that gave him his nickname was also from this place.
What is Iceland?
This person named the continent of America after Vespucci.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Magellan successfully travelled the full circumference of the globe. This is what that trip is called.
What is circumnavigation?
The lack of this vitamin often caused scurvy in sailors.
What is vitamin C?
The Cape of Good Hope was a sea route from Western Europe to here.
What is Asia?
Leif Erikson was, as far as we know, the first European to set foot on this land.
What is America?
This disease killed Amerigo Vespucci, as well as Vasco Da Gama.
What is malaria?
Magellan supposedly died from a poison weapon. This was the kind of weapon.
What is an arrow?
Trade was the main source of this in the economy of these explorers' time.
What is money or wealth?
The Cape of Good Hope is the shortest ever route from Europe to Asia. This shorter route revolutionized this practice.
What is trade?
This means to take control over an area and send people to live there.
What is colonization?
It was for these two countries that Amerigo Vespucci sailed.
What is Spain and Portugal?
True or false, the Strait of Magellan was discovered intentionally.
False
These were the main motivators for European exploration.
Curiosity and knowledge. Trade and money.
Vasco Da Gama was of this origin.
What is Portuguese?
Instead of Leif Erikson, this is the person that we actually credit with the discovery of America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Amerigo Vespucci was of this origin.
What is Italian?
Magellan was of this origin.
What is Portuguese?
This was the year that Christopher Columbus "discovered" America.
What was 1492?