Famous Explorers
Key Terms
They Went Where?
Technology of Exploration
TANGENTS! (random)
100

What is Christopher Columbus famous for?

"Discovering" America.  (will also accept all the crimes against humanity)

100

Trade

The exchange of goods and services over distance.

100

Neil Armstrong

Moon

100

Device that points north. 

Compass

100

Why might early humans have needed to leave Africa (at least one likely reason)

habitat change, aggressive neighbors, curiosity, etc.  

200

Who first rounded the cape of good hope. 

Bartolomeu Dias

200

Human expansion

Humans spreading all over earth

200

Marco Polo 

China

200

What advantages did Polynesian boats have?

Stable double hull, kept fresh food, Triangle sails, etc.  

200

Who is just the WORST! (a very bad man responsible for many crimes against humanity in the Americas)

Columbus 

300

First People to fly 

The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.

300

Hajj

Pilgrimage to Mecca

300

Vasco Da Gama

India

300

Why was the caravel a good ship for exploration?

Can work in deep and shallow water, handles easily. 

300

Describe an average Ibn Battuta visit. 

Gets sick, married/divorced, complains.

400

First European (whose name we know) to land in north America.

Leif Erikson

400

Circumnavigate 

To sail or travel all the way around something, especially the world.

400

The Polynesians 

All over the pacific (Easter island, Hawaii, etc.,)

400

Name of the furthest object humans have sent into space. 

Voyager 1

400

Who was (probably) the first person to circumnavigate the world?

 Enrique (Ferdinand Magellan's slave)

500

First explorer to reach the south pole.

Roald Amundsen

500

North West Passage

Sea route through the Canadian arctic between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  

500

Ibn Battuta (at least 5)

ALOT! 

500

How did Polynesians find land. 

clouds, birds, fish, currant, floating stuff, star compass, etc. 

500

When the Sputnik 2 satellite was flying over the US proving that the soviets could fire nukes at the US.  What was the #1 concern expressed by Americans?

Is the dog (Laika) ok?