Explorers
An Italian navigator who landed in the New World believing he had found a western route to India.
Christopher Columbus
An instrument used for navigation and shows direction relative to the cardinal directions.
Compass
A person who makes maps
Cartographer
Moving from competition among cities to competition among nations happened during which revolution?
Commercial Revloution
What were the primary motivations for the Age of Exploration?
Glory, Gold, God
This explorer discovered the southern tip of Africa in 1488, later named Cape of Good Hope.
Bartolomeu Dias
An instrument used to make astronomical measurements. Altitudes of celestial bodies, calculating latitude.
Astrolabe
Sailing around the world, completely around something
Circumnavigation
True or False: Merchants relied on renters for income.
False: Nobility relied on renters for income.
What was Christopher Columbus's original goal when he set sail in 1492?
To find a new route to Asia
Who suggested that Columbus had discovered a “New World”, where the name came from?
Amerigo Vespucci
Which technological advancement allowed ships to sail against the wind?
Triangle-shaped sails
Imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean. It was drawn to divide the world’s lands between Spain and Portugal by the pope in 1493
Line of Demarcation
What theory of national economic policy states that power depends on wealth?
Mercantilism
Which country led the way in early exploration by venturing out of the Atlantic Ocean far down the west coast of Africa?
Portugal
A Portuguese sailor who in 1519 found a western passage to Asia through South America.
Ferdinand Magellan
Which technological advancement made it easier for ships to turn?
Moving Rudder
Middle section of the triangular trade, in which enslaved Africans were brought by ship to the Americas
Middle Passage
An economic system in which money is invested in business to make profits.
Capitalism
Who was known for bringing together mapmakers, mathematicians, and astronomers to study navigation and sponsored many explorations?
Prince Henry the Navigator
A French missionary and a fur trader who explored the upper Mississippi River valley.
Marquette and Joliet
These made travel much faster.
Masts
Three-directional trade route between Europe, Africa, and America in the 1600s
Triangular Trade
Which system allowed Native Americans to be used as slave laborers by the Spanish colonizers?
Encomienda system
Who was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan's crew