General European Exploration
The European Exploration took place between the 15th and which century?
What is 18th?
This person is credited with taking a ship around the point of Africa and across the Indian Ocean.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
This Spaniard sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered the Caribbean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
In 1453, the Byzantine Empire was taken over by this empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Muhammad Al-Idrisi enhanced European knowledge through his development of what?
What is a map?
This famous empire helped spread their influence across India due to the Portuguese's European technology.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This famous line was set as a compromise between Portugal and Spain for their future discoveries.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
This is one of the oldest archeological cites of the Mayan Empire.
What is El Mirador?
When Portugal gained a foothold in India, there were this many major kingdoms/sultanates that made up India.
What is 20?
Who is Marco Polo?
This is a famous Portuguese Navigator who didn't actually sail himself but was over the operation.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
Who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church?
Who is the Pope?
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This was the name for the solar calendar in the Aztec/Mayan Empire.
What is the Haab?
The famous route across Eurasia was documented by a famous European Traveler that inspired the European Exploration. What is the route called?
What is the Silk Road?
This person discovered Brazil for Portugal.
Who is Pedro Alvarez Cabal?
This is a pathway discovered at the tip of South America that allowed Spain to travel to Asia.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
This person just won the Incan Civil War when Francisco Pizarro showed up.
Who is Atahualpa?
This particular complexity helped the Incan Empire control their lengthy territory in the Andes Mountains.
What are roads?
What is the famous book written about a famous traveler's adventures across Eurasia that helped inspire the European Exploration?
What is the Book of the Marvels of the World?
The Portuguese established four strategic points along the west coast of Africa. Name two.
What is Madeira, or Cape Bojador, or Canary Islands, or Azore Islands?
Ferdinand Magellan was credited with circumnavigating the globe, however, he died, and his crew completed the trip. Where did he die?
What is the Phillipines?
The Long Count Calendar in the Mayan and Aztec Empire is also called what?
What is a b'ak'tun?
This fertility, feathered serpent god was worshipped by both the Aztecs and the Mayans.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?