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Vocabulary
Reasons for Exploration
Columbus
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Impact on the World
100
Please define settlement
What is a small community of people living in a new place?
100
What Europeans were looking for when they sailed from Europe?
riches, spices and gold
100
Who agreed to pay for Columbus' trip?
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
100
What did Magellan try to do?
circumnavigate or travel around the world
100
What is the Columbian exchange?
a process by which good and animals were introduced between the Americas and Europe.
200
Please define epidemic
What is an outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly?
200
What were European explorers, including Columbus, looking for?
a sea route to Asia
200
What are the three ships that Columbus started out with?
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
200
Which ocean did Magellan discover?
Pacific Ocean
200
What is an example of a product that the Columbian Exchange brought TO Europe?
potato, cacao, peanuts, corn, squash
300
Please define continent
What is a large landform?
300
What is another reason that Ferdinand and Isabella wanted Columbus to explore new places?
to create settlements that Spain would control
300
What did Columbus call the native people he found on the island he discovered?
Indians
300
How did Magellan die?
died in a battle with people on the islands
300
What did Columbus introduce to the Americas that wasn't there before?
disease, cattle, pigs and horses, coffee beans
400
Please define navigation
What is the process by which people control the direction of a ship?
400
What is the reason that Magellan wanted to explore?
He had a daring idea that people wanted to go all the way around the world.
400
What is the name of the place that Columbus discovered near the Americas?
West Indies
400
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
He realized that he and Columbus had not reached Asia.
400
What did Vespucci contribute to our understanding of the map of the world?
He helped people understand that North and South America were new unknown continents
500
Please define exploration
What is the process of traveling to make new discoveries?
500
Why did countries want explorers to establish settlements?
To spread their country's power.
500
Where did Columbus think he had reached on his journeys?
India
500
What did Vespucci name the new land that he discovered?
the New World
500
Who helped us understand the shape of the world?
Magellan through his exploration to go all the way around.