These three countries were in competition during the Age of Exploration.
Who are England, Spain, and Portugal?
100
Native Americans were living in ___________ and people from _______ had no idea they were there.
What is America and Europe?
100
More land and control, bigger ships, and a _______ were what all the European countries wanted.
What is a faster trade route?
100
This group of people sailed about 500 years before Columbus and found Newfoundland near Canada.
Who are the Vikings?
100
This is what the word "sponsor" means.
What is who paid for the Explorer's voyage or trip?
200
This is the country who sponsored Columbus' voyages?
Who is Spain?
200
This is the type of ship Columbus wanted to sail on.
What is the caravel?
200
This is where Columbus really discovered.
What is San Salvador in the Bahamas?
200
This was Columbus' original movitvation for exploring.
What is to find a faster trade route to the Indies?
200
Two of the following are true. This is the statement that is false.
1. The King of Portugal did not pay for his trip.
2. He made several voyages and found Asia at the end.
3. He did not use a compass or an astrolabe for navigation.
What is he made several voyages and found Asia at the end?
300
These are the things that the Europeans traded TO the Natives during the Columbian Exchange.
What are tin, disease, pigs, sheep, horses, wheat?
300
These are the things the Natives traded TO the Europeans during the Columbian Exchange.
What are corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, cocoa beans, potatoes, and tobacco?
300
These are the 3 G's for why Explorers wanted to explore.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
300
This technological advance was the making of maps. It allowed Explorers to chart their courses and newlands explored.
What is cartography?
300
This is an instrument that makes far away objects look bigger.
What is a telescope?
400
This technological advance allows a navigator to establish true north or magnetic north.
What is a compass?
400
With this technological advance, more people had access to print (books) so there were more readers which meant more people learned more.
What is the printing press?
400
This was a navigational tool that used longitde and latitude to give direction.
What is the astrolabe?
400
This measured angles up to 90 degrees to help determine the sun's altitude, which helped calculate latitude.
What is the quadrant?
400
This is an instrument for measuring latitude.
What is the cross-staff?
500
This was a small faster type of sailing ship that made it easier to sail into the wind.
What is the caravel?
500
Over time, many Natives were forced off their ______ and forced to become _____ to the Europeans.
What is land and slaves?
500
The Europeans introduced new diseases. These diseases wiped out a huge population of these people.
What are the Natives?
500
This was Columbus' accomplishment.
What is claiming San Salvador for Spain?
500
Christopher Columbus set sail with three ships named this.