Before the Age of Exploration, European food was _______.
What is boring or bland?
100
He helped start the Portuguese exploration by having mapmakers and inventors share information. He led a school of navigation in Portugall
Who is Prince Henry of the Navigator?
100
Columbus thought he found the East Indies but in reality he found this place.
What is the Bahamas?
100
He seized gold, silver, and spices from Spanish ships as he travelled the same route as Magellan across the world. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 1 for bringing this wealth and glory for England.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
100
A disease caused by the lack of vitamin C.
What is Scurvy?
200
A Venetian who travelled through Asia and wrote a book of his travels in the year 1300. He inspired future explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
This explorer accidentally sailed around the tip of Africa finding a route to the Indian Ocean.
Who is Bartholomew Dias?
200
An imaginary line that goes from the North to South Pole that separated the Americas between Portugal and Spain. Spain got the better end of this deal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
A Spanish fleet of huge ships with many cannons and men. More than half of it was lost when it attempted to invade England.
What is the Spanish Armada?
200
A rebellion against a leader such as a ship's captain.
What is a mutiny?
300
The European motives for exploration include profit through trade, avoiding conflict with the Muslims, and _____________.
What is spreading Christianity?
300
The explorer that travelled the same route as Dias and went further to Calicut, India. He failed to trade with their leader since their leader did not want to upset the Muslims who were already trading with them.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
He circumnavigated the globe even though he did not survive the trip. His crew mutinied several times during the journey. Only one of his ships made it back home.
Who is Magellan?
300
He searched for the Northwest Passage to the Spice Islands but found New Foundland instead.
Who is John Cabot?
300
A chain of islands.
What is a Archipelago?
400
Two instruments that helped sailors navigate include _______ and __________.
What is the magnetic compass and sextant?
400
He was planning to travel around the tip of Africa but accidentally discovered Brazil.
Who is Pedro Alvarez Cabral?
400
A Spanish priest who wrote against the encomiendas calling them an enslavement of the natives.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
400
He attempted to establish a colony on Roanoke Island twice. The first time there was not enough families to settle there. The 2nd time the whole colony disappeared.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
400
To travel completely around the world by water.
What is Circumnavigate?
500
The Portuguese invented this ship for long voyages. It has two types of sails to help with strong winds and maneuverability?
What is the Caravel?
500
Portugal was only interested in one thing from Brazil. What is it?
What is red dye?
500
He discovered a route to the Pacific Ocean. He was arrested by Pizarro who was one of his men. He was beheaded by the Governor of Panama.
Who is Balboa?
500
In 1607 this company established the colony of Jamestown in Virginia.