Explorers
Gets credit for being the first explorer to sail around the earth.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan
map maker
What is a cartographer?
type of new ship design that Prince Henry is credited for
What is a caravel?
first European to pass Cape Bajodor
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
stranded
What is marooned?
Captain of the Victoria
Who was Juan Sebastrian del Cano
a skilled sailor
What is a navigator?
connects Russia and Alaska
What is the Bering Strait?
collected books and charts
Prince Henry the Navigator
a dairy
What is a journal?
Kept a detailed journal aboard one of Magellan's ships.
Who was Antonio Pigafetta?
to go around the world
What is to circumnavigate?
A word that means rebellion.
What is mutiny?
The number of ships that Magellan left Spain with.
What is 5?
killed
What is executed?
Found a sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea.
Who was Mel Fisher?
a person who studies history
Who is a historian?
Magellan tried to convert people in the ________ to Christianity.
What are the Philippines?
Magellan spent months trying to start a colony along the coast of this continent?
South America
imaginary line that divides the Earth between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
What is the equator?
Found a direct trade route to India and opened an important spice trade to Europe.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
A group of ships
What is a fleet?
The value of Mel Fisher's treasure that he found.
What is $450 million?
Kept a dairy about the disagreements between Magellan's crew.
Who was Antonio Pigafetta?
disease from a lack of vitamin c
What is scurvy?