Middle Ages and Renaissance
This institution preserved and copied ancient works of literature, philosophy, and science during the Middle Ages.
What is the Church?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to discover the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeau Dias?
Columbus set sail in 1492 with these three ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
This explorer's name was given to the newly discovered continents of America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This crop, native to the Americas, became a staple in European cuisine.
What is the potato?
This period was marked by a renewed interest in the knowledge and discoveries of the Greeks and Romans
What is the Renaissance?
This device allowed sailors to navigate by the positions of the stars.
What is the astrolabe?
Columbus believed he had reached this part of the world when he landed in the Bahamas.
What are the East Indies?
This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This deadly disease, introduced by Europeans, decimated indigenous populations in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
This family became patrons of artists, philosophers, and scientists during the Renaissance.
Who are the Medicis?
This explorer's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This Spanish monarch duo funded Columbus's voyage.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This explorer claimed Brazil for Portugal.
Who is Pedro Cabral?
This European-introduced livestock became common in the Americas.
What are cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep?
This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This explorer claimed Canada for France and discovered the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Columbus established the first Spanish colony in the Americas on this island.
What is Hispaniola?
This explorer's journey led to the first European circumnavigation of the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This valuable crop from the Americas became a major export to Europe.
What is tobacco?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed for the rapid spread of information and ideas.
What is the printing press?
This explorer established the first permanent French settlement in the Americas at Quebec City.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This system, instituted by Columbus, forced indigenous people to work on plantations and in mines.
What is the encomienda system?
This Spanish explorer established the first permanent Spanish settlement on the American mainland in Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This term refers to the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?