Explorers & Expeditions
Led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world
Who was Ferdinand Magellan
Highly valuable Asian trade goods Europeans sought
What are Spices?
Tool that uses Earth's magnetic field to show direction
What is a compass?
Exchange of goods, animals, and diseases
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Natural ability to resist infection
What is immunity?
The explorer that discovered a route to the Indian Ocean
Who was Bartolomeu Dias
Economic System focused on building wealth through trade and colonies
What is Mercantilisim?
The making of maps is known as?
What is cartography?
What the Europeans established once they took land
What is a colony?
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
who was Henry Hudson
He explored the eastern coast of Africa
Who was Vasco da Gama
The trade that made the Dutch money is?
What is fur trade
Tool that determines lattitude
What is the astrolabe?
Navigators used these to know where they were and where they were going
What is the astrolabe and compass?
America is named after him (YES SPELLING COUNTS)
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer who believed he had reached Asia but actually was in the Caribbean
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What are the "Three G's"?
Gold, God, Glory
This tool determines longitude, and was also used to tell time
What is a chronometer?
The landmark that Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to reach
What is the Cape of Good Hope
Exclusive possession or control of
What is a monopoly?
The explorer who conquered the Aztecs
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Government support given to explorers for voyages is known as?
What is sponsorship?
Ship designed for long-distance exploration
What is a caravel?
System forcing Indigenous people to work for Spanish landowners
What is the Encomienda System?
The explorer who conquered the Incas
Who is Francisco Pizarro?