General Age of Explorations Knowledge
Route used to bring goods from India to Italy
What was the Great Silk Road?
Item that shows what direction a ship is sailing
What is a compass?
The person who thought they had reached India
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The three ships Columbus sailed
What were Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria?
a Spanish word meaning conqueror
What is conquistador?
The King and Queen of Spain
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
Strongly built ships that were also light and easy to maneuver
What were Caravel Ships?
The person who mapped and explored the coast of Africa
Who was Henry the Navigator?
Genoa, Italy
Where was Columbus from?
The person who conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A Quadrant
What instrument is used to measure latitude during the day
Bartholomew Diaz
Who was the person who rounded the Cape of Good Hope?
August 1492
When did Columbus set sail?
Aztec Emperor
Who was Montezuma?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
What drew the line dividing the world between Portugal and Spain?
An instrument used to measure latitude at night
What is an Astrolabe?
The person who reached India by sailing around Africa
Who was Vasco de Gama?
The land which Columbus discovered and named
What was San Salvador?
Aztec capital city
What was Tenochtitlan?
What was Ptolemy’s Geographia?
Log and Line
What is the instrument used to measure a ship's speed in knots?
The person who reached the coast of Brazil
Who was Pedro Cabral?
The person who America was named after
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
the renamed capital city
What is Mexico City?