Goals of Exploration
Europeans wanted to find a faster route to this continent for trade.
What is Asia?
European countries wanted to gain these valuable metals from new lands.
What are gold and silver?
Sailors used this tool to find their direction using Earth’s magnetic field.
What is a compass?
English explorer who was the first to claim land in North America for England?
Who is John Cabot?
This explorer’s crew was the first to sail around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
One of the main goals of explorers was to spread this major religion.
What is Christianity?
Spices were valuable because they made this more flavorful and preserved it.
What is food?
This instrument helped sailors find their latitude using the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
This explorer looked for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
He claimed the land around the Mississippi River for France and named it Louisiana.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
This phrase summed up the explorers’ main goals: “God, Gold, and ____.”
What is Glory?
This trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas brought goods and enslaved people across the Atlantic.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This ship design with triangular sails made it easier to sail against the wind.
What is a caravel?
The ocean that Columbus crossed in 1492.
What was the Atlantic ocean?
The Italian explorer that sailed under the Spanish flag and is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Rulers sent explorers to claim new lands and expand this.
What is their empire (or country’s power)?
Explorers hoped new colonies would provide these — things that Europe could not easily produce.
What are natural resources or raw materials?
New type of triangular sails that helped make ships faster.
What are lateen sails?
This explorer traveled through the American Southwest and searched for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
This French explorer claimed land along the St. Lawrence River and Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Explorers hoped to gain these valuable goods like silk and spices.
What are trade goods (or luxury goods)?
Explorers brought animals, plants, and diseases between continents in this major historical event.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Technological advancements during the Age of Exploration helped sailors navigate the oceans more effectively
The compass, the astrolabe, and advancements in ship design like the caravel.
This explorer reached India by sailing around Africa, opening up trade with Asia.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?