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Vocab
Navigation
Explorers
Across the Sea
Changing World
100
Someone who give financial support to a person or cause
patron
100
Which navigation tool helped European sailors know how far they had sailed from the equator?
astrolabe
100
How long did Columbus sail before he reached land on his first voyage?
five weeks
100
What was the overall effect of the Columbian Exchange on most native people of North America?
It was harmful to them
100
European merchants wanted to find a sea route to Asia because...
they wanted to obtain goods from Asia more easily
200
A person who buys and sells goods
merchant
200
Which navigation tool helped sailors know which direction they were going?
compass
200
What did Columbus name the general area where he landed on his first voyage?
West Indies
200
How did mapmakers help European Sailors improve their navigation?
They made more accurate maps
200

Boat that was smaller, lighter, and had triangular sails to better control the wind, therefore it was a faster sailing ship: Cara_____

caravel
300
An outbreak of a quickly spreading disease
epidemic
300
Who started a Portuguese navigation school in 1419?
Prince Henry
300
Why did Cortes take Montezuma prisoner?
He wanted to conquer the Aztecs
300
Which explorer's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Magellan
300
How did the Spanish exploration of North America affect the native people living there?
Native people were made to work as slaves, caught diseases, and many died.
400
The buying and selling of humans as property
slave trade
400
Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agree to fund Columbus's voyage?
They wanted to profit from trade and spread Christianity in Asia
400

GRAB BAG: What has a ring but no finger?

phone

400
How could you describe Prince Henry's navigation school?
Sailors, scholars, mapmakers, and shipbuilders worked together to improve sea travel
400
How did horses change the way Native Americans lived?
Having horses improved Native American life by making it easier to travel and hunt.
500
A settlement far from the country that rules it
colony
500
Which direction did Columbus sail in his attempt to reach Asia?
west
500
Which items of the Columbian Exchange most helped Native Americans?
horses
500
Both Native Americans and Africans suffered in New Spain, but they did not both suffer ____________ like the Africans did.
leaving their homeland
500
Why did Europeans import enslaved Africans to North America?
They were captured and enslaved to be sent to North American to work in order to replace the Native Americans who had died