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TECHNOLOGY
Land Ho! EXPLORATION
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Christopher
Columbus
Two Worlds Meet
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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?
100
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 chronometer?
100
Name of LANDS ruled by the nation that won control over them
What is an empire?
100
the monarchs that sponsored Columbus' trip in 1492
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
100
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella want Columbus to achieve this in his second voyage
What are get riches, start settlements, and convert the people he met to the Catholic religion?
200
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
200
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?
200
The first explorer who believed could reach Asia by sailing west across the Ocean Sea (Atlantic Ocean)
Who was Christopher Columbus?
200
the movement to make Spain all Catholic
What is 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
200
What Columbus brought back from the new world to Spain
What is a few gold items, the island's animals and plants, and several Taino people.
300
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?
300
Explorers had to be entrepreneurs or businessmen which means they were this.
What is a person who sets up and runs a business?
300
the names of Columbus' ships
What were the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
300
the reason Columbus sailed west from Europe
What is to find a direct sea route to Asia?
400
He opened a school of navigation in 1418.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal? Navigation is the science of planning and following a route
400
The name of the ANCIENT LAND ROUTE between China and Italy
What is the SILK ROAD? FYI: EUROPEANS CALLED ASIA "THE INDIES"
400
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
400
the name of the island that Columbus and his crew claimed for Spain in the Caribbean Sea
What is San Salvador?
400
the name of the 12 year old boy that was the page on Columbus' expedition and his job
What is Diego Bermudez and ringing bells for prayer?
500
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?
500
The word for the reward gained
What is the benefit? The benefit of exploring was the chance of finding riches
500
the name of the people Columbus met on the islands, he called them Indians because he thought he sailed to the Indies or Asia
What is the Taino Tribe?
500
the explorer who was inspired by Columbus's expeditions
Who was John Cabot?