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New ships designed by the Portuguese with multiple, smaller, triangular sails
What is a Caravel?
100
Prince of Portugal who financed many explorations but never went exploring himself
Who is Henry the Navigator?
100
The explorer who thought he had reached the Indies, but he had actually found a route to the Americas
Who is Columbus?
100

Who financed Columbus' trip?

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand

100
The man who explored the St. Lawrence River
Who is Jacques Cartier?
200
An intrument invented by the Chinese that helped navigators find magnetic north
What is a compass?
200

What are the 3 Gs of Motivations

What are God, glory and gold

200
A Spanish conquistador who captured Tenochitlan and conquered the Aztec Empire
Who is Cortez?
200
The explorer who explored the Hudson's Bay area and the Hudson River
Who is Henry Hudson?
200

This man realized that what Columbus found was an entirely new continent.

Amerigo Vespucci

300

What is the tool that help measure time?

What is a hourglass?

300
The explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope going east to India in 1497
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300

This explorer almost circumnavigated the globe but was killed in the Phillipines.

Who is Magellan?

300
The man who discovered Newfoundland and explored the coast of Canada
Who is John Cabot?
300

This man explored the mighty Mississippi River

Robert de la Salle

400
An ancient Greek device that could be used to find latitude
What is an astrolabe?
400

What are the continents of the New World

North America and South America

400
A Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Incas in 1532
Who is Pizzaro?
400

What are the three ships of Columbus

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

400

Peru, a city in South America is known by what other name?

City of the Kings

500

Name the continents of the Old World

What are Africa, Europe and Asia

500

These explorers were looking for a faster way to where?

What is the spice islands or the indies?

500
The explorer who discovered Mexico, Florida and the Gulf Stream but not the fountain of youth
Who is Ponce de Leon
500

What are one bad thing that was exchanged on the Columbian Exchange?

Diseases

500

Who did Cortes take hostage from the Aztecs?

The Montezuma