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?
An English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. He also sailed once for the Dutch East India Company.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances
What is Mercantilism?
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 device that eliminated the use of oars in sailing ships.
What is a rudder?
Italian who sailed for Portugal. He explored much of what is now northern South America, Atlantic coast of Brazil, and the Patagonian region of Argentina.
He is probably best known for identifying Columbus' "discovery" as a new continent. Both North and South America are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
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?
Frenchman who was the first European to explore and map Northeast Canada, including the areas around the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Pedro Alvares Cabral supposedly found the continent of South America by accident. This modern-day country is where he landed. He claimed this land for Portugal.
What is Brazil?
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?
His claim to fame is that on his third attempt, he was successful in conquering the Inca Empire. He also founded the now major city of Lima, Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The movement of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
What is the Columbian Exchange
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?
What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"
What are gold, God, and glory?
He traveled to Mexico with 500 men and 11 ships and overthrew the Aztec ruler Montezuma II in their capital of Tenochtitlan.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
The 1494 treaty that divided the world's colonial possessions between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?