Exploration & Technology
The author of a book that inspired numerous explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
The science of planning and following a route.
What is navigation?
Columbus was looking for a new route to this continent.
What is Asia?
The Spanish Explorers were called by this name, meaning, "Conquerors".
What are Conquistadors?
He was a captured slave who helped the Spanish explorers.
Who was Estevanico?
The period of time known for new ideas and new technology.
What is the Renaissance?
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is an expedition?
These rulers sponsored Columbus' voyage.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This was the state that Ponce de Leon claimed for Spain.
What is Flordia?
The new trade route to Asia through North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The inventor of the printing press.
Who was Johannes Guterberg?
Lands ruled they the nation that won control of them.
What is an empire?
The three ships in Columbus' fleet.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Cortes was looking for these mystical "cities".
What were the "Seven Cities of Gold"?
The French sent him to look for a new trade route to Asia through North America.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
The reason no Europeans had traveled to Asia in the 1400s.
What is there was no accurate map of the world.
The movement to make sure Spain was entirely Catholic.
What was the Reconquista?
The name Columbus chose for the land where his ships anchored.
What was San Salvador?
The period of time when religious leaders called to change in the Catholic church.
What is the "Reformation"?
This river was discovered by accident while looking for a trade route.
What is the St. Lawrence river?
The scientific knowledge and tools to complete a task.
What is technology?
A narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas.
What is an isthmus?
These two instruments told sailors the direction in which they were traveling. One used the cardinal directions and the other used the sun or the North Star.
What are an astrolabe and a compass?
These people were sent to convert Native Americans to the Catholic church.
Who were missionaries?
His voyage ended with a mutiny of his crew.
Who was Henry Hudson?