Vocabulary
Small, fast sailing ship.
What is a caravel?
They were from Scandinavia.
Who are the Vikings?
Son of the Portuguese ruler.
Who is Prince Henry?
Prince Henry spent how much time being a patron.
What is nearly 40 years?
Invented the magnetic compass.
Who are the Chinese?
A person who sells and buys for profit.
What is a merchant?
Scandinavia includes these 3 countries.
What is Norway, Denmark, and Sweden?
Type of school that Prince Henry opened.
What is navigation and mapmaking?
This explorer reached the tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
The needle of the magnetic compass always points in what direction.
What is North?
A trip that is made for the purpose of exploration.
What is an expedition?
The Viking with the red hair.
Who is Eric the Red?
Two ways that Prince Henry wanted to make money during explorations.
What is capture African gold and slaves?
The Portuguese named the tip of Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Measured the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
What is an astrolabe?
An instrument used for navigation that measures the sun and stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Eric the Red's son.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
The sailors Henry hired explored the west coast of Africa and also...
What is explore the region and establish settlements?
Name of the other Portuguese explorer after Bartolomeu Dias?
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Provided latitude at sea and exact measurement of time.
What is the chronometer?
Used to tell latitude and longitude at sea.
What is a sextant?
Leif Ericsson, an explorer, was probably the first Europeans to land in...
What is North America?
The Portuguese trade more than silver and gold, they also took part in ...
What is slave trade?
Which country did Vasco de Gama reach?
What is India?
All these tools helped European with what?
What is mapmaking?