This helped explorers find their position at sea and stay on course by showing the ship's latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
100
The explorers liked this new food grown by American Indians. It was as healthful and had as many uses as wheat, but its seeds were bigger and tastier.
What is corn?
100
A crop that is grown in large quantities for sale.
What is a cash crop?
100
A compass's needle always points this direction.
What is north?
100
Many Christians believed that everyone should share their same ____________.
What is faith or religion?
200
This allowed explorers to claim, or take, a particular piece of land for their country.
What is a flag?
200
This was something Explorers were sent to search for to help their country pay off debts and/or become wealthier.
What is gold and silver?
200
a scientist who studies artifacts to learn about past cultures
What is an archaeologist?
200
The name that Europeans used to refer to the Americas
What is the New World?
200
By doing this, European rulers could spread and strengthen their power.
What is claiming land?
300
This helped explorers know about the shapes of bodies of land and water. Some even showed such features as rocky shores and safe ports.
What is a map?
300
This crop was a major cash crop and Europeans had no idea how unhealthy it was.
What is tobacco?
300
a person who travels in search of new geographical information. For example, the Europeans who sailed unknown seas in the 1500s looking for new routes to Asia.
What is an explorer?
300
The period of time from the late 1400s into the 1500s when European explorers traveled around the world to search for new trading routes.
The Age of Exploration
300
Spain sent explorers over to bring back _________ to help pay off a costly war.
What is wealth or gold & silver?
400
This helped explorers know which direction they were sailing.
What is a compass?
400
Gaining more of this for their country would strengthen their kingdom's power.
What is land and natural resources?
400
An early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars
What is an astrolabe?
400
Archaeologist study __________ to learn about events in history like how and why Europeans sailed to the New World.
What are artifacts?
400
Explorers took products such as ________ back to Europe to sell.
What is tobacco? Or foods like potatoes, corn and beans.
500
Explorers brought this with them because they wanted to spread their religion.
What is a bible?
500
These natural products helped Europeans to eat healthier foods.
What are potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, squash and corn?
(Name 2)
500
The land masses of North America, Central America, and South America.
What is the Americas?
500
Native Americans were the first to grow this plant, from which chocolate is made.
What is cacao?
500
The earliest explorers did not set out to find new continents. They were looking for __________.