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Explorers Spain/Portugal
Explorers Spain/Portugal
Africa
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
100
In 1492 this Italian sailor along with 3 of his ships sailed in search of a faster route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
100
An Italian explorer who found America
Amerigo Vespucci
100
What are the 5 regions in Africa?
Northern, Western, Eastern, Middle, Southern
100
Astrolabe
What instrument helped make sea exploration possible by telling latitude?
100
What is the name of a disease that killed many natives that was brought over by the Europeans?
Small pox, measels or scurvvy
200
in the 1400's he had his own school of navigation and developed his own ship called the caravel.
Henry the Navigator
200
A Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa naming it the Cape of Good Hope.
Bartolomeu Dias
200
What are the 3 vegetation regions in Western Africa?
Sahara, Savanna, Rain forest
200
Which instrument shows direction?
compass
200
What are the names of the ships Columbus used?
Santa Maria, Pinta, Nina
300
He found the water route to Asia
Vasco da Gama
300
An explorer from Portugal who led a voyage in 1519 took 5 ships and 270 men and reached the Philippines where he was killed in battle.
Ferdinand Magellan
300
What is a lack of rain?
drought
300
A Spanish soldier that explored the Americans and claimed land for Spain.
Conquistador
300
What is the year that Columbus first set sail?
1492
400
in 1531 he led 180 men into Peru to conquer the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
400
An explorer from Spain who led a voyage in 1513 to the pacific and named all the lands he found for Spain.
Vasco de Balboa
400
What was the major items traded in Western Africa?
salt and gold
400
Name of the trade route between Asia and European cities.
silk road
400
Movement of people, plants, animals and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
500
He landed on the Mexican coast in 1519 and took over the Aztec Empire with 508 conquistadors.
Hernando Cortes
500
Give 3 reasons why the Europeans explored the New World.
God, Glory and Gold
500
What was the 1st major trading center in Western Africa?
Ghana
500
What is a mapmaker?
Cartographer
500
The route from Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada that didn't exist
Northwest Passage