European Exploration & Tools
This tool invented by the Arabs was used by sailors to determine their location.
quadrant
Europeans wanted to explore the world to spread this specific religion.
Catholicism
This Portuguese navigator (c. 1460–1524) was the first to sail from Europe to India.
Vasco da Gama
Columbus thought the Indians could become Christians, but he also thought they would make good _____
Slaves
The French called their American settlements this name.
New France
This Portuguese-constructed ship featured large triangular sails that helped sailors sail farther and faster.
caravel
European exploration was driven in part by pressure from this religion.
Islam
This explorer sailed around Africa’s southern tip before Vasco da Gama reached India.
Bartolomeu Dias
Columbus made this many total trips back to the Americas after his first voyage.
3 more trips
These French Protestants were forbidden to settle in America.
Huguenots
This term refers to changing a ship's direction to head into the wind in a zigzag pattern.
tacking
In the early 1400s, this group sailed to India, Arabia, and Africa, but historians do not know the reason they stopped exploring.
Chinese
Columbus got the queen of this country to support his trip west across the Atlantic.
Spain
This Spanish historian and missionary opposed the treatment of the Indians, freed his own slaves, and tried to get others to treat the Indians well.
Bartolomé de Las Casas
The Dutch founded New Netherland with this capital city, which was a good trading spot.
New Amsterdam
This peninsula in southwestern Europe includes the modern-day countries of Spain and Portugal.
Iberian Peninsula
Europe was changing in the 1400s because trade with these two regions was expensive.
India & China
On October 12, 1492, Columbus and his men landed at this location.
San Salvador (or the Bahamas)
The King of Spain wrote a document claiming Spain had a right to the Indians’ lands and that the Indians must become this.
Roman Catholics
This French explorer discovered the Saint Lawrence River while looking for a Northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Cartier
These lines run east to west around the globe to measure distance in degrees from the equator.
latitude
Before European exploration, these two other groups navigated sturdy or trade-focused boats in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.
Arabs and the Mayas
This Portuguese royal encouraged exploration along Africa and India before Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama made their famous voyages.
Prince Henry
Efforts to improve how the Indians were treated failed despite laws from the king and declarations from this leader.
The Pope
These two men persuaded Queen Elizabeth to start Roanoke, the English colony where all colonists mysteriously disappeared.
Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh