European exploration
Columbus
Shipbuilding
Who did What?
Stuff 2 Know
100
One of the major reasons for European exploration was to increase this.
What is trade?
100
This country's Queen gave Columbus money to explore new lands.
What is Spain?
100
The ability to steer a ship without oarsmen was provided by this type of sail.
What is a triangular lateen sail?
100
This country claimed most of the land in South America.
What is Spain?
100
The name for a journey or voyage of exploration.
What is an expedition?
200
Spain's goal changed from trade to this.
What is expansion?
200
This is the year Columbus set sail
What is 1492?
200
The small projection from the rear of the ship that helps to steer.
What is a rudder?
200
These people owned the East India Trading Company
Who are the Dutch?
200
A deadly contagious disease.
What is small pox?
300
A growing desire for this led Europeans to be involved in the Crusades.
What are goods from Asia?
300
The place Columbus originally set sail to reach, which other travelers had reached by traveling by land toward the east.
What is Asia?
300
This instrument allowed for more accurate readings of a ship's location.
What is a cross staff?
300
These people died from European diseases, their populations were enslaved, and their land was stolen.
Who were the American Indians?
300
Knowledge used for making things, such as better ships.
What is technology?
400
Columbus learned to reach the east by sailing west by doing this.
What is studying ancient maps?
400
The first place Columbus reached when he sailed South or Southwest
What is the Canary Islands, located off the coast of Africa?
400
Advances in this made it less likely that sailors would get lost while at sea.
What is navigation?
400
This man was the first European to sail to India.
Who is De Garma?
400
The Crusades led to this when the Crusaders returned with goods from Asia, creating a desire in the people for such goods.
What is the European Age of Exploration?
500
Europeans did not want this during the 1400s and 1500s.
What is religious freedom?
500
When Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean he landed here.
What is the island Southwest of what is now the U.S.?
500
What the explorers searched for to provide a way to travel through North America to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
This person's march in search of god and riches led to the destruction of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Cortez?
500
These two countries explored the Americas, and one established the most colonies there.
What are Spain and France? (Spain established more colonies)
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