Word to Know
All about Explorers
Exploring the New World
Around the World We go
Wild Card
100
King or Queen
Monarch
100
First European to land in the Americas
Leif Eriksson
100
What did John Cabot find?
cod fishing grounds
100
a sickness many explorers got
scurvy
200
an adventure story told about brave deeds
saga
200
Who landed in Americas in 1492 but thought he was in the Indies?
Christopher Columbus
200
Who was John Cabot compared to?
Christopher Columbus
200
What explorer landed in the Americas in the year 1000 AD
Leif Eriksson
200
the study of how to plan and control the course of a ship
navigation
300
map maker
cartographer
300
Who found present day Rio de Janiero?
Amerigo Vespucci
300
Why did John Cabot want to explore?
to find the Northwest passage
300
What explorer explored the new world in 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
300
How did the capture of Constantinople encourage exploration?
since this cut off trade routes they now wanted to find a western route to Asia
400
relating to the government
political
400
After his travels how did Vespucci encourage more exploration?
he recruited and trained other navigators
400
While sailing to the unknown, why were Columbus's sailors ready for mutiny?
They didn't think Columbus had a good plan
400
Europeans were eager to trade with Asia because they wanted....
silk, spices, and gold
400
managing goods and services for financial reasons
economical
500
an age of thought, learning, art, and science
Renaissance
500
Where did Columbus first land?
What is the Bahamas
500
The Viking Settlement of Vinland was located in present day?
Canada
500
Trade between Europe and Asia stopped when the Turks captured
Constantinople
500
What were the 3 examples of the advances in technology during the time of exploration?
ships, maps, compasses
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