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Which direction did Columbus sail to try to find the Spice Islands?
West
Who sailed west for Spain in 1492 and landed in the Bahamas and found North America.
Christopher Columbus
Which country used enslaved people to work in gold and silver mines on islands in the Caribbean?
Spain
What shape were the sail that made it easier to quickly change the direction of the ships?
What does circumnavigate mean?
To travel completely around something, such as the Earth.
Which Ocean did daGama sail across before reaching India?
The Indian Ocean
Who was the first to discover the southern tip of Africa?
Dias
Which country sent a sailor to look for a Northwest Passage to Asia?
England
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement that divided the world between which two countries?
Portugal and Spain
What is it called when one person, country or company has complete control of a good or service?
Monopoly
What is the name of the strait that runs along the bottom of South America?
HINT: It was named after the European explorer who first crossed it.
Strait of Magellan
Which Portuguese explorer sailed all the way around Africa and across the Indian Ocean?
daGama
Which country finally agreed to pay for Columbus to sail west in search of Asia?
Spain
What is scurvy?
a disease cause by a lack of vitamin C
This Portuguese man encouraged the sharing of maps and created schools to teach skills such as shipbuilding and navigation.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
Southern tip of Africa
Which English explorer was considered a pirate by the Spanish because he looted their ships?
Sir Francis Drake
Which country began to set up colonies along the coast of North America?
England
This navigational tool uses a magnetized pointer to show direction.
Magnetic Compass
This is another name for a large fleet of ships.
armada
Which huge ocean did Magellan cross that he thought was going to be much smaller?
Pacific Ocean
Whose voyage was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which country eventually set up colonies in the country that is now Brazil?
Portugal
Which great Mesoamerican Empire did Hernan Cortes conqueror?
The Aztec Empire
What is an archipelago?
A group of islands