Definitions
A person who buys or sells goods
Merchant
Invented in 1450, this tool helped spread news quickly and cheaply about new discoveries
Printing press
This Italian explorer was sent on a voyage by the King and Queen of Spain
Christopher Columbus
This explorer traveled to Tibet dressed as a man and wrote books about Tibetan religion
Alexandra David Néel
The transfer of goods, ideas, animals, diseases, and more to the new world, started by Christopher Columbus
The Columbian Exchange
An instrument that measures the position of stars in the sky to determine a ship’s latitude and direction
Astrolabe
In 1463, _____________ captured Constantinople, cutting off European trade through the Middle East
The Ottoman Empire
This Spanish explorer led four ships to Mexico where the Aztec people lived. His conquests almost entirely wiped out the Aztec people
Hernán Cortés
This route connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and served as a shorter trade route to Asia
The Northwest Passage
The magnetic _____________ allowed explorers to maintain a consistent direction while sailing, crucial for finding routes to Asia and then the Americas.
Compass
This explorer traveled to every continent expect Antarctica to study new flowers
Marianne North
This explorer traveled along The Silk Road under Kublai Khan. He wrote about culture, wealth, and society of many Asian places, including Mongolia and China.
Marco Polo
The trade path connecting Asia and Europe where goods (such as spices), and ideas (such as religion), were exchanged
The Silk Road
The lives of Indigenous people were changed when cattle and horses were introduced because…
They provided new transportation, food, and resources.
True or false: Zheng He was an influential ocean explorer in the late 1400s to early 1500s
False: While Zheng He was certainly an influential ocean explorer, he died in 1433
This explorer took a pilgrimage to Mecca to meet with other Muslim leaders
Ibn Battuta
It is important to note that we may have a ______________ when learning about history because we don’t have a balance of information, opinions, and sources.
Bias
The name of Columbus’s three ships
Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria
These explorers used longboats to travel, which were lighter and easier to move/change directions. They traveled for land, gold, glory, and trade routes.
The Vikings
This explorer set off to complete her father’s research after he died. She traveled to Sierra Leone by herself in 1896, where she found gorillas and cooked and ate snakes in the wild
Mary Kingsley