Vocab
People who buy and sell goods.
What are merchants
This allows explorers to know their exact location on earth.
What is a map?
Red-Headed Viking explorer.
Who was Eric the Red?
The business of buying and selling people.
What is the slave trade.
To travel from one place to another.
What is migrate?
The process sailors use to plan their course and find their location.
What is navigation?
I can always find True North using this.
What is a compass?
These are the two islands visited and named by Erik the Red.
What is Greenland and Iceland?
The purpose of Prince Henry's school.
What is to teach navigation and map making.
I am the land bridge that connected North America and Asia.
What is Beringia?
The use of scientific knowledge to create new ideas and tools is?
What is Technology.
This individual created a school for sailors to learn their craft.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
I landed in the Bahamas and thought it was India.
Who is Columbus?
Prince Henry financed explorers for this purpose.
What is to find a sea route to Asia.
Lifestyle where you hunt and gather food.
What are Hunter-gatherers?
New and improved Portuguese sailing ship.
What is a caravel.
Name two improvements given to Caravels by ship builders.
What are:
Stronger rope, square sails, waterproofed boats, larger cargo areas for longer voyages?
He was the first European to reach American soil.
Who is Leif Erikson?
I was the first person to successfully sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
This process allowed hunter-gatherers to change and be able to stay in one place.
What is agriculture?
Navigation tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
What is an astrolabe?
Name modern tech that we use when sailing. (AT LEAST 3)
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Spell the name of the country that is the western most point of Europe.
Portugal
I am the first person to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Name the three Mesoamerican cultures that we discussed in class.