This Frenchman explored much of the eastern coast of modern day Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
100
A small, Portuguese ship built to move quickly and handle well.
What is a Caravel?
100
The first explorer to sail westward to find a passage to China.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
200
This explorer claimed North America for England, setting the course for England's rise to power in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Who is John Cabot?
200
These 2 inventions help better navigate the ships of The Age of Exploration.
What are the compass and the astrolabe?
200
This king of Portugal was known as the Navigator.
Who was Prince Henry?
200
With this invention, books became less expensive and easier to make.
What is movable type for printing presses
200
The king and queen who funded Columbus's first voyage.
Who were Ferdinand of Argon and Isabella of Castile?
300
On this day, “Columbus sailed the ocean blue” on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
What is August 3, 1492?
300
In 1488, this explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
300
Columbus landed on this small island in the Bahamas during his first voyage.
What is San Salvador?
300
Cartier sailed downriver to what would become Montreal and was welcomed by these Indians who controlled the area.
Who are the Iroquois?
400
Cartier returned to France with these 2 "precious" items on his final voyage.
What is gold and diamonds?
400
South American river said to have been discovered by Vespucci?
What is the Amazon?
400
In 1538, this mapmaker, working off the maps created at St-Dié, chose to mark the name America on both the northern and the southern parts of the continent, instead of just the southern portion.
Who was Mercator?
400
Vespucci meeting with this explorer piqued his interest in exploration.
Who was Columbus?
500
These were the Seven Arts.
What were grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic,
music and astronomy?
500
In 1507, this German cartographer proposed that the newly discovered Brazilian portion of the New World be labeled America, the feminine version of the name Amerigo, after Amerigo Vespucci.
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Who was Martin Waldseemüler?
500
Vespucci discovered this country a year before Christopher Columbus did.
What is Venezuela?
500
This King of Portugal funded Vespucci's 3rd vovage to the New World.
Who was King Manuel I?
500
Marco Polo and his Cathay (China), spice and trade, competition with Portugal, the spread of Christianity...