Inventions
What is the name of a small ship that can travel faster and farther?
Caravel
He was the first man to open up a direct trade route to Asia for his country Portugal.
Vasco da Gama
What are the 3 G's?
Gold, Glory, God
What is a device that can tell the distance between stars and give you your exact location?
Astrolabe
He was the first man to circumnavigate (travel all the way around) the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
Europeans wanted to find faster and safer ways to get spices and silk from this continent.
Asia
What is a handheld device that can tell you what direction you are going in?
Compass
He traveled for Spain and started the Age of Exploration.
Christopher Columbus
Many explorers wanted this shiny, valuable metal to make their countries rich.
Gold
What is a device that helps you study the stars and planets closer?
Telescope
Prince Henry the Navigator
Spanish settlers set up missions to spread what?
Christianity
What is a machine that creates books faster?
Printing Press
This French explorer traveled to Canada and named the St. Lawrence River while looking for a route to Asia.
Jacques Cartier
Explorers searched for things like wood, sugar, and cotton to bring back and sell. These are called what?
Natural resources / Raw materials