Age of Exploration Causes
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
All of our explorers were looking for faster water routes to....
Asia
The explorer credited with discovering the "New World"
Christopher Columbus
My crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth
Ferdinand Magellan
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
To sail around the world
Circumnavigate
Who is credited with being the first European to sail around Africa to India
Vasco da Gama
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives?
the Philippines
The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .
What is the Colombian exchange?
What country did Giovanni da Verrazano sail for
France
Columbus claimed the lands he found for what country?
Spain
The Straits of .........., is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating .
Magellan
Europeans brought back this from India and the Indies
Spices
What new type of ship did the explorers use to travel far distances?
Caravel
Da Verrazano is credited with exploring and mapping what?
The North Atlantic Coast of North America
What happened when the King and Queen of Spain heard that Columbus was a very cruel and unfair governer of Hispanola?
What valuable information did Magellan's voyage provide about the earth?
It confirmed that the earth is a sphere, contributed to new astrological charts of the southern hemisphere.
Two countries battling it out for exploration supremecy?
Spain and Portugal
This was a navigational tool used by sailors to determine their latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the North Star or the sun.
What is an Astrolabe?
da Gama was named Viceroy, and later died where?
India
Christopher Columbus first landed on what island chain?
Caribbean
Magellan's voyage started with 5 ships and 270 men... How many completed the voyage?
18 men and 1 ship