Age of Exploration Causes
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
Europeans brought back...... from India
Spices
I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?
The Age of exploration started on this continent
Europe
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
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?
Amount of Native Americans that died without a single shot being fired, and how?
up to 90%, because of disease
This explorer conquered the Aztecs in Mexico
Cortes
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
What ocean did explorers have to cross to get to the "New World"
Atlantic Ocean
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
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?
I am a Venetian and I am well known for my journals about my journey to China.
This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World
What is 'Spain'?
Where did Columbus actually land?
The Caribbean
This group was technically the first to arrive in North America, even before Columbus
The Vikings.
A series of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia
Silk Road
My crew was the first to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Who Discovered the pacific ocean?
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
What new type of ship did the explorers use to travel far distances?
Caravel
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)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
Instrument used by sailors to measure position of stars and figure out their latitude.
What is the astrolabe
The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
This Explorer discovered Peru
Francisco Pizarro
A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
First Place that the Portuguese landed in Africa while trying to find a water route to India
Where is Morocco?
the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
Colonization
Who were the Spanish King and Queen that funded a voyage to the New World ?
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Name given to a person who actually draws or produces maps
Who is a 'cartographer'?
Aztecs location
Mexico
conquered the Inca
Pizzaro
Name one accomplishment of Magellan
First to cross the pacific ocean and to circumnavigate