Explorers
What chinese explorer is best known for his exploration across the South China sea and the Indian Ocean?
How did sailors navigate at night?
Using the Stars (astrolabe)
The Silk Road
What famous explorer was the Columbian Exchange named after?
Christopher Columbus
What instrument used the stars to show where they are in the world?
Astrolobe
What direction did Hernan Cortez sail? (East or West)
West towards Mexico
What disease did explorers get when they did not get enough fresh air?
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
What were all explorers looking for during the Age of Exploration? (HINT: Their 3 motivations)
God, Gold, Glory
What is one BIOLOGICAL impact of the Columbian Exchange?
Diseases, plants and animals, slavery, new crops
What instrument uses the 4 cardinal directions?
Compass
What british explorer circumnavigated the world?
Sir Francis Drake
What disease was caused by a lack of vitamin usage that led to teeth falling out, skin rashes, and mental breakdowns?
Scurvy
Who founded the Cape of Good hope off the Coast of Africa?
Bartholomew Dias
What was the impact of horses to the americas?
Native Americans were able to adapt from an agricultural society to a hunter and gatherer society.
What instrument uses the SUN to tell you exactly where you are?
Who were the 2 Portuguese explorers that explored the world?
Vasco De Gama, Bartholomew Dias
Which explorer traveled throughout the middle east and most of the Muslim World?
Ibn Battuta
Why did Christopher Columbus believe he was in India?
Because he did not know that the America's existed
Is Sugar an old world product or a new world product?
Old World
Cartographer
This Portuguese citizen who sailed for Spain became the first person to circumnavigate the world. Even though he died on his journey.
Ferdinand Magellan
What explorer encountered dangerous storms off the Coast of Africa that almost ruined his exploration to the Cape of Africa?
Bartholemew Dias
Which explorer is most famous for traveling by land and by sea?
Marco Polo
Why is religion so important for the Columbian Exchange?
Most countries would only trade with people who were the same religion. With Christianity expanding, new trade routes became open to the world.
What were the ships called that were used during the Age of Exploration?
Caravel