Famous Explorers
The explorer that sailed into the Bahamas Islands in 1492 on three ships. He believed he had landed in India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Navigational instrument that allowed explorers to determine their latitude by measuring the inclined position of a celestial body.
What is the astrolabe?
The period of time between the early 15th century and lasting until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes.
What is the Age of Discovery?
Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament
Who was Erasmus
With the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere, Native American populations were exposed to new infectious diseases, diseases for which they lacked immunity
What are smallpox and measles
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world. Unfortunately, he died about halfway through its journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Navigational instrument that helped explorers that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions
What is a compass?
a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history,
What is the Black Death
a German monk who forever changed Christianity when he nailed his '95 Theses' to a church door in 1517, sparking the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther
Continent where the Cape of Good Hope is located. This where a Portuguese explorer first reached the bottom of a massive continent.
What is Africa?
Portuguese prince who rarely participated in explorations sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
The use of these helped explorers sail in any direction they chose and did not have to depend on the wind pushing at the back of the sails.
What are triangular sails?
Coinciding with the period of time known for the discovery and exploration of new continents. Known for the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such innovations as the printing press.
What is the Renaissance?
an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.
Who was the Medici Family
the division or consolidation of communal fields, meadows, pastures, and other arable lands in western Europe into the carefully delineated and individually owned and managed farm plots of modern times.
What is the Enclosure movement
His success in finding an all-water route to Asia proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The use of these, developed by Ptolemy and al-Idrisi, helped European explorers' knowledge of the rest of the world.
What are maps?
This war kept England and France from exploring the rest of the world during the early 1400s.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
a Protestant sectarian of a radical movement arising in the 16th century and advocating the baptism and church membership of adult believers only
Who were the Anabaptists
books once forbidden by Roman Catholic church authority as dangerous to the faith or morals of Roman Catholics
What is the Index of Prohibited Books.
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a caravel?
were military campaigns largely conducted between the 11th and 13th century to liberate southern Portuguese and Spanish territories, from the Muslim Moors
What is the Reconquista
The company prospered through most of the 17th century as the instrument of the powerful Dutch commercial empire in the East Indies
Who was the Dutch east India Company
The 1494 treaty that divided the world's colonial possessions between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?