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Someone who gives financial support to a person or cause.
What is a patron?
Helped European sailors know how far they had sailed from the equator.
What is an astrolabe?
Started a Portuguese navigation school around 1419.
Who is Prince Henry?
The reason Cortés took Moctezuma prisoner.
What is he wanted to conquer the Aztecs?
A person who buys and sells goods.
What is a merchant?
Points north and helped sailors know what direction they were headed.
What is a magnetic compass?
A reason why King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to fund Columbus’s voyage.
What is to profit from trade and spread Christianity in Asia?
What King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella wanted Columbus to trade for in Asia.
What are gold and spices?
An outbreak of a quickly spreading disease.
What is an epidemic?
Allowed sailors to locate places such as harbors, mouths of rivers, and coastlines
What are maps?
The direction Columbus sailed in his attempt to reach Asia.
What is west?
The item from the Columbian Exchange that MOST helped the Native Americans.
What are horses?
The buying and selling of humans as property.
What is slave trade?
The explorer to circumnavigate the earth.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
How long Columbus sailed before he reached land on his first voyage.
The overall effect of the Columbian Exchange on most of the native people of North America.
It was harmful to them.
A settlement far from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
Best describes Prince Henry’s navigation school.
What is sailors, scholars, mapmakers, and shipbuilders worked together there to improve sea travel?
The name of name the general area where Columbus landed on his first voyage.
What is the West Indies?
How mapmakers helped European sailors improve their navigation.
What is they made more accurate maps?