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What started it all?
Why did people begin to explore?
Kinds of
TECHNOLOGY
Land Ho! EXPLORATION
BEGINS
1st explorer - Christopher
Columbus

More Columbus facts
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In the year 1450, during a time called the Renaissance or "rebirth", Johannes Gutenberg's invented this and it helped spread ideas.
What is the printing press?
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The name of the the navigational tool that helped sailors find their longitude or distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What is the compass?
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an EMPIRE
What is name of LANDS ruled by the nation that won control over them?
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Who were the monarchs that sponsored Columbus' trip in 1492?
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They expected Columbus to find more riches, start settlements, and convert the people he met to the Catholic religion
What did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella want Columbus to achieve in his second voyage?
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This early explorer wrote a book that became hugely popular during the Renaissance. It tells of his travels in Cathay or China 200 years earlier. Europeans loved to read about Chinese inventions such as gunpowder and the compass.
Who was Marco Polo? He wrote the Travels of Marco Polo
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The name of the navigational tool sailors used to figure out the positions of the sun, moon, and stars. It helped sailor find their latitude or distance north or south of the equator.
What is the astrolabe?
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the first explorer who believed could reach Asia by sailing west across the Ocean Sea (Atlantic Ocean)
Who was Christopher Columbus?
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The Reconquista After reclaiming all the land in Spain that was once held by Muslims, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella was able to to pay for Columbus' expedition
What is the movement to make Spain all Catholic?
200
The name of the man who lead the Vikings from what is today the country of Norway. They sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean stopping in Greenland and then reaching Canada and landed in present-day Newfoundland.
Who was Leif Erickson of Norway?
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After reading about Chinese goods, like spices and silk, European traders began to travel to Asia along difficult land routes. Europeans wanted to travel by sea because it would be easier and safer, but they lacked something.
What is technology?
300
a trip taken with the goal of exploration
What is an expedition?
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and entrepreneur
Explorers were businessmen. What is the term for a person who sets up and runs a business?
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the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
What were the names of Columbus' ships?
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to find a more direct water route to Asia
What is the reason Columbus sailed west from Europe?
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He opened a school of navigation in 1418.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal? Navigation is the science of planning and following a route
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name of the ANCIENT LAND ROUTE between China and Italy
What is the SILK ROAD? FYI: EUROPEANS CALLED ASIA "THE INDIES"
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the term for the effort made to achieve or to gain something
What is the cost? The costs of an expedition were: the ships, supplies, the risk that ship could sink, or the explorer might not find any valuable goods in the new lands to bring back to their sponsor
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San Salvador
What is the name of the island that Columbus and his crew claimed for Spain in the Caribbean Sea?
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Diego Bermudez He rang the bell for prayer
What is the name of the 12 year old boy that was the page on Columbus' expedition? What was his job?
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The name of the new kind of ship that was long, narrow and could carry more goods than earlier ships?
What is a caravel?
500
The group of Europeans had reached North America (Canada) 500 years before Columbus but fought with the Native American people and so left
Who are the Vikings?
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The word for the reward gained
What is the benefit? The benefit of exploring was the chance of finding riches
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The Taino tribe
What is the name of the people Columbus met on the islands, he called them Indians because he thought he sailed to the Indies or Asia?
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John Cabot
Who was the explorer who was inspired by Columbus's expeditions?