Christopher Columbus
The year Columbus and his three ships sailed.
What is 1492?
What does the word "Pacific" mean?
What is calm and peaceful?
They were forced off their land.
Who are Native Americans?
Because the Europeans accidently brought this from their countries, MANY Native Americans died.
What are disease and illnesses?
First to sail West to reach Asia. OR, he thought he did.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the MAIN reason that Columbus sailed West from Europe.
What is to find a more direct water route to Asia?
Someone who sponsors a navigator to sail.
Who is a patron?
The exchange of plants, animals and food between the Old World and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The reason for exploration.
What is to search for gold, riches and to claim land?
First explorer to travel around the world and named the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The study of map making.
What is Cartography?
What motivated the explorers to sail? List three things.
What is for fame, riches and to claim land?
The fear of the unknown and extremely long journeys became ______________ to exploration.
What are obstacles or RISKS?
He started a navigation (sailing) school. He sailed around Africa to get to China.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This European nation sponsored Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.
What is Spain?
A ____is an old item found that tells us about the past.
What is an artifact?
At first in the 1400s, the explorers sailed WEST to find a faster route to...
What is Asia?
The first explorer to realize Americas were a new land. Map Makers named the new continents after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Traveled along The Silk Road in the 1200s and went to China. He brought back silk and spices.
Who is Marco Polo?
Diaries and journals are an example of this.
What is a primary source?
Parrots, pumpkins, and potatoes can be found in the New World (The Americas) True or False?
What is true?
In the late 1400's Europeans were anxious to find a route to the Indies. Some felt like they could sail West rather than East. This is what they were looking for.
What is the Northwest Passage OR ASIA?
The three ships that Columbus sailed on his first voyage west.
What are the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?