This provided a way for European explorers to utilize things such as compasses to assist in the search for new land.
What is technology.
100
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is an expedition?
100
Many Europeans believed that the Northwest Passage would provide them with this.
What is a shortcut to Asia?
100
This is the continent which Columbus thought he reached in 1492
What is Asia?
100
Explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
200
Hernando Cortes conquered this empire in Mexico.
What is the Aztec?
200
The science of planning and following a route.
What is navigation?
200
This country was the first to attempt to find the Northwest Passage and sent Giovanni da Verrazano to find it.
What is Italy?
200
This was the main reason Columbus sailed west from Europe during his expedition.
What is a water route to Asia?
200
Explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
300
This explorer was the leader of the first expedition to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
The use of sciengiffic knowledge and tools to make or do something.
What is technology?
300
This explorer was the third person to look for the Northwest Passage, he made four trips and his last trip was sponsored by an English company in 1610.
Who is Henry Hudson?
300
This group of Europeans reached America 500 years prior to Columbus.
Who were the Vikings?
300
Explored and claimed for Spain much of what is now the southwestern United States.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
400
Finding wealth, claiming lands, gaining power and spreading Christianity.
What is the benefits for exploration?
400
An agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters.
What is treaty?
400
During this time Hudson's crew mutinied and set him adrift at sea.
What is Hudson's last voyage?
400
This country and it's king financed Columbus's expedition to locating a water route to Asia?
What is Spain
400
Explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
Money to pay for ships, crew and supplies. Risk of ships sinking and losing people and anything of value.
What is the costs of expedition?
500
Rebellion against the leader of one's group.
What is mutiny?
500
Europeans believed that they would gain this if they were to be the first to find a fast water route to Asia.
What is wealth and power?
500
This event placed Columbus's expedition on hold as the King and Queen were too busy fighting a war to support him right away?
What is the Reconquista?
500
Explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of what is now the United States.