Name 3 Navigation tools
What are Astrolabe, Cross-staff, Back-staff, Quadrant, Magnetic Compass.
Was Christopher Columbus the first person to discover the Americas?
What is No.
What are 2 things that were exchanged in the Columbian Exchange?
What are Non-native plants, animals, or sicknesses.
Where was Christopher Columbus born?
Where is Italy
What tool did the Astrolabe evolve into during time? Basically name the improvement.
What is Sextant
The use of an Astrolabe.
What is measuring altitude, finding the positions of the sun and stars and/or finding time.
Who was the first person to discover the Americas?
Who was Leif Erikson.
What were 3 diseases that traveled to Europe?
What were Plague, Chicken pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Influenza, Measles, Scarlet fever, Smallpox, Typhus, Tuberculosis and whooping cough.
What was the improvement in the Astrolabe called?Basically name the new tool that was an improvement from the Quadrant.
What is the Octant.
What was an improvement of the Cross staff?
What is the Backstaff.
What is Celestial Navigation?
What is Celestial Navigation is the science of finding your way using stars and planets.
How many voyages did Christopher take?
What is four.
What NEGATIVE impact did the Columbian exchange have?
What was bringing harmful sicknesses,Slavery Exchange,less cultures/less population.
What is known as the Reflecting quadrant
What were one of the inventors names that created the Octant?
Who was Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley.
Why were tools used on the ocean so often?
What is because majority of the world navigated by sea to find new trade routes.
Name the 3 boats that Christopher Columbus had when he first voyaged to the Americas?
What is the NiƱa, Pinta and the Santa Maria
What is the Triangular Trade?
triangular trade was a trade route that linked north america to Europe to Africa.
Why would you use a tool that finds the angle between the star or planet?
Why was the Sextant invented?
What is because at that time Sextants were scarce and people wanted something new.
What year was the Astrolabe and Quadrant invented?
When was 150 BC and 9th century.
What year did Christopher Columbus's third trip take place?
When was 1498.
Which continent was the most important trader in the triangle
Where was Europe?
Who was once a helper of Columbus?
Who was Ferdinand Magellan.
Who was Jesse Ramsden and what year did he passed away?
Who was a British mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker.
He passed away on the year of 1800