Vocabulary
This city was captured by the Turks, closing off trade routes from Europe to Asia
Constantinople
This European whose descriptions of the riches of China made traders want to go to Asia
Marco Pollo
What event happened first? The trade routes from Europe to Asia were closed off or the first European school for training sailors in navigation was set up?
Trade routes
the invention of this object contributed to better navigation and more accurate sailing
the compass
This is the body of water that was reached by Vasco De Gama
The pacific ocean
This Italian explorer figured out that Christopher Columbus had not reached Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
a European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe.
Ferdinand Magellan
What happened first? Vasco Nunez de Balboa proves that Vespucci was right and that Columbus was wrong, or Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world?
Vasco
Vasco Nunez de Balbo discovered what?
The atlantic and pacific oceans were different
first European people known to have visited the americas
vikings
This man was the leader of the first group of people to visit the Americas
Leif Eriksson
Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa
Vasco De Gama
What happens first, Amerigo Vespucci concludes that columbus did not reach asia, or Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world?
Vespucci
a new one of these allowed boats to move across the water, into the wind changing navigation forever.
a sail
America is named after who
Amerigo Vespucci
This is the name given to the first european settlement in the Americas.
Vinland
Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa
Bartholomeu Dias
What happened first? Constantinople was captured by the Turks, or Europeans invented a better compass and better sails to improve their sailing?
Europeans
Name one thing wrong with the first globe ever made
earth was small
did not include the americas, australia, or antarctica
africa was too small and in the wrong spot
Italian Explorer who landed in present-day Newfoundland but told people he found Cathay
Giovanni Caboto
the first European to make a globe was
Martin Behaim
local name for the island of which Columbus first landed
Guanahani
what happened first? Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, or, Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the world?
Balboa
In Europe where lands were once ruled by warring nobles, the development of countries now ruled by monarchies, resulted in what?
European Exploration
Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators
Prince Henry