These factors motivated Europeans to explore the world so they could make more money.
What is economic factors?
100
Mapmaking skills
What is cartography.
100
Where the Vikings originated from.
What is Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Northern Europe)?
100
Prince Henry established this for sailors and navigators.
What is a school?
100
Part of the United States that de Soto explored.
What is the southeastern United States?
200
These factors included competition between the nations.
What is politcal factors?
200
A navigational tool that measures the height of the sun above the horizon.
What is the astrolabe?
200
The person who explored and settled Greenland after being exiled from Iceland.
Who is Erik the Red?
200
The year that Columbus sailed West for the first time.
What is 1492?
200
Magellan's crew proved this.
What is that the earth was round/sailing around the world could be achieved?
300
These factors helped the explorers to sail faster and navigate better.
What are technological factors?
300
The production and distribution and consumption of goods and services.
What is economics?
300
He explored land west of Greenland in hopes of finding trees for the people.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
300
Because of Prince Henry, the Portuguese profited from this, the buying and selling of human beings.
What is the slave trade?
300
The country that both Magellan and de Soto claimed land for.
What is Spain?
400
Economic competition with __________ influenced __________ to pay for Columbus and other explorers on expeditions to the New World.
What is Portugal and Spain?
400
The activities, actions, and policies that are used to gain and hold power in a government or influence a government.
What is politcal?
400
Ericsson named the land that he explored and settled ____________.
What is Vinland?
400
Columbus' motivation to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
What is to find a fast route to the Spice Islands/West Indies?
400
The city that de Soto and other conquistadors searched for.
What is the Seven Cities of Gold.
500
The advancement in shipbuilding included the construction of the ____________, which was a smaller and faster ship with triangular sails that could sail into the wind.
What is caravel?
500
Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americans in the 1500s.
What is conquistador?
500
These are long, spoken tales that were repeated from one generation to the next.
What are sagas?
500
Columbus is credited for discovering what?
What is San Salvador/The New World/North America?
500
Hernando de Soto was the first European to see this.