vocab
When there are multiple, legitimate points of view about questions that matter to people
What is controversy?
What Europeans began to call the continents in the western hemisphere, named after Amerigo Vespucci who realized it was a continent separate from Asia
What is America?
People from Hawaii that memorized the stars and constellations to help them travel
Who are Polynesian Wayfinders?
The study of ancient Greek texts in this field helped explorers develop more accurate maps, which were essential for navigation during the Age of Exploration.
What is mapmaking?
This explorer’s 1492 voyage is often considered controversial because, while he opened the Americas to European exploration, he also initiated the enslavement and mistreatment of Indigenous peoples.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This term describes someone who travels to unfamiliar places, often for the purpose of discovery, research, or mapping.
What is an explorer?
What European explorers called the western hemisphere when they started to map it
What is New World?
The first European explorer to set foot on American Soil. He was also a Viking.
who is Leif Erikson?
This technological advancement in the 15th century allowed for the mass production of maps, making them more widely available to explorers and sailors.
What is the printing press and engraving technology?
This conquistador led the expedition that conquered the Inca Empire in present-day Peru, capturing and executing the emperor Atahualpa in 1533.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The study of human history through remains and artifacts they left behind.
what is ARCHAEOLOGY?
A Kuna word meaning “mature land” to refer to all of North and South America
What is ABYA YALA?
Realized that the Americas were separate from Asia
who is Amerigo Vespucci ?
This Chinese invention, along with the astrolabe and other instruments, enabled sailors to navigate more accurately while far from land.
What is the magnetic compass?
This Spanish conquistador is infamous for leading the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
A sophisticated way of passing down information from one generation to the next, created before written language had been invented
What is Oral Tradition?
The part of the USA between Canada and Mexico on the north and south and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on the west and east
what is Main Land?
This Chinese admiral commanded a fleet of ships on seven major voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa during the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
These weapons, often mounted on ships, played a significant role in the European conquest of native populations during the Age of Exploration.
What are cannons and guns?
Inca Leader who was murdered
Who was Atahuallpa?
This term refers to a territory that is controlled by a distant country, often established for economic exploitation or settlement.
What is a colony?
What many Indigenous people call the continent of North America based on different stories about the earth being formed
what is Turtle Island?
This Danish explorer's expeditions in the 18th century led to the discovery of the strait that now bears his name, separating Russia from Alaska.
Who is Vitus Bering
This type of sail allowed sailors to catch the wind from various directions, making it easier to sail against the wind and improving travel speed.
What is the triangular sail?
They ruled Russia when Vitus Bering was exploring
Who was Peter the Great?