Technology and Inventions
Used Earth's magnetic field to determine direction.
What is a magnetic compass?
This disease brought by Europeans to the New World killed from 90-95% of the Natives who contracted it.
What is smallpox?
Who was Mary I? ("Bloody Mary")
Large Spanish ship which carried guns.
What is a galleon?
He established a sailing school to support exploration.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Spanish soldiers
Who were conquistadors?
Likely the current nation of Columbus' first journey.
Where is the Bahamas?
What is the Printing Press?
This significant crop from the New World transformed farming in European Nations - especially Ireland.
What is the potato?
She was the "Virgin Queen" who reigned successfully from 1558-1603.
Who was Elizabeth I?
He built the first Russian Fleet.
Who is Peter the Great?
He was returned to Spain "in chains" for his mismanagement and brutality in Hispaniola.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Map making.
What was cartography?
The maritime Tip of South Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Ship with a shallow draft, lateen sails and invented in Portugal.
What is a caravel?
What domesticated animal brought from Eurasia transformed the society of nomadic indigenous peoples of the Americas?
What is the horse?
She was responsible for the Reconquista.
Who was Isabella of Castile?
Oceangoing Dutch ship used for exploration.
What is a fluyt?
First European explorer to sail to the Tip of South Africa.
Who was Bartholomew Dias?
This is an economic system where a mother country profits from the natural resources and market for finished goods of a colony.
What is mercantilism?
Conversos lived in this nation after converting from Judaism to Catholicism.
What is Spain?
It helped to determine latitude.
What was a mariner's astrolabe?
What disease was likely brought back to Europe by Columbus and his crew?
What is Syphilis?
She ordered the murder of 30000 Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day.
Who was Catherine de Medici?
This Portuguese ship predated the Galleon - it was large and had multiple guns - it could carry cargo and act as a warship.
What was a Carrack?
First Portuguese Captain to sail to India.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
This document recorded life in Aztec Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
What is the Florentine Codex?
The Portuguese attempted to set up Forts in this middle eastern nation with little success.
What is Oman?
Invention from 1609, it helped to create better star charts.
What is a telescope?
Five indigenous crops from the New World.
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She was put to death for treason, in a potential plot against the life of the Protestant Elizabeth I.
Many explorers looked for this mythical pathway across the Continent of North America.
What was the Northwest Passage?
He claimed New York for the Dutch.
Who was Henry Hudson?
What is indentured servitude?
What city was established by Samuel de Champlain?
What is Quebec City?
This distinguished scientist theorized that tides result from the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon on the oceans
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
What two indigenous crops from Brazil were brought to the Continent of Africa?
What are yams and manioc (tapioca)?
She brought the process of smallpox inoculation from Turkey to Europe.
Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
The Strait between North America and Asia is named after this Russian Explorer.
Who is Vitus Bering?
First Europeans to travel the length of the Mississippi River - claimed all land drained by the River for France.
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
Spanish priest that accompanied Columbus and recorded his voyages.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
Islamic Spain.
What is Al-Andalus? Or the Ummayed Caliphate.