Portugal Leads the Way
This European country led early ocean exploration.
What is Portugal?
Europeans wanted to find sea routes to get these valuable goods.
What are spices?
Why were maps at the time not perfectly correct?
What is Because the world is round and explorers hadn’t seen all the land
Europeans wanted to find a sea route to this continent.
What is Asia?
Columbus was sponsored by this country.
What is Spain?
This prince sponsored voyages and supported sailors and mapmakers.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
What motivated Bartolomeu Dias to sail around the southern tip of Africa?
To find a route to India for trade and bring wealth and goods to Portugal
Who created a school to train sailors, mapmakers, and explorers in Portugal?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Portuguese routes to Asia went around this continent.
What is Africa?
Columbus believed he could reach this continent by sailing west.
What is Asia?
Portuguese explorers sailed mainly along this continent’s coast.
What is Africa?
What is it called when a country takes control of land in another place to get wealth and power?
Sailors often ate this food on ships.
What is dried or salted food?
This country colonized India by the mid 1800s
What is England?
These two smaller, faster ships helped Columbus explore.
What are the Niña and Pinta?
This explorer rounded the southern tip of Africa. (Cape of Good Hope)
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
Europeans wanted to spread this religion
What is Christianity?
This tool showed direction using a magnetic needle.
What is the compass?
Vasco da Gama landed at this port city in India.
What is Calicut?
This was Columbus’s largest ship, which served as his flagship.
What is the Santa Maria?
This explorer reached India by sea in 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What are the 3 G's that can summarize motivations for European Exploration?
What is Gold, God and Glory
This ship design made long ocean voyages possible.
What is the caravel?
European control of Indian land and trade is an example of this. (Hint: In the mid 1800s India became a ______ of England)
What is a colony or colonization?
Columbus thought he had reached Asia, but he actually landed here.
What is the Caribbean (or the Americas)?