Technological Advancements
Used to determine location by using the North Star.
What is an astrolabe?
A civilization that came from Scandinavia and claimed Greenland and part of Canada.
Who are the Vikings?
They were often forced off their land by explorers who arrived and wanted to claim their land..
Who are Native Americans?
Because the Europeans accidently brought this from their countries, MANY Native Americans died.
What is disease and illnesses?
First to sail West to reach Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Used instead of the square sails once used on large ships.
What is triangular sails.
First Portuguese explorer to send men sailing around the coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
A person who gives money and/or supplies to another person in exchange for them to sail the ocean to find trade routes for the person.
Who are sponsors or patrons?
List two reasons for exploration.
What is find a direct trade route to India, find fame and fortune, claim land?
Portuguese explorer who made it to the Canary Islands and back.
Who is Prince Henry?
Uses a magnet to help find North in order to determine position or sailing direction.
What is magnetic compass?
Was the first explorer to make it past the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Diaz?
How would a country benefit from finding a trade route to India?
What is it would open up India's spice trade?
First Portuguese explorer to make it past the Cape of Good Hope?
Who is de Gama?
Used to see objects far away.
What is a telescope?
Who is Vasco de Gama?
A person who makes maps and helped sailors follow routes on uncharted waters.
What is a cartographer?
First Viking to land in the New World.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
Larger and lighter ship that had more storage.
What is the Caravel?
The first explorer from Spain who attempted to find a more direct route to India (but did not make it).
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Trained men to be explorers and sponsored them as explorers to find a trade route to India.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
In the late 1400's Europeans were anxious to find a route to the Indies other than the one they had found on land because of these two main reasons.
What is traveling by land was dangerous and Europeans hoped to gain control of trade routes so they could become wealthy?
First to cross the land bridge and begin life in the New World (North America and South America).
Who are nomads?