Age of Exploration
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
The science of planning and following a route.
What is "NAVIGATION"?
These were Spanish explorers who conquered those they came in their path of conquest.
What is a Conquistador?
These were religious teachers who were sent to other regions to spread their religious beliefs.
Who are MISSIONARIES?
He was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Balboa?
This group led by Lief Erikson were said to have arrived in North America over 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
Lands ruled by the nation that won control of them.
What is an EMPIRE?
The explorer who explored the Hudson's Bay area and the Hudson River and was mutinied against by his crew.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This country paid for Columbus' trip in 1492.
What is Spain?
A narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas.
What is an ISTHMUS?
He claimed most of Southwest (United States) for Spain.
Who is Coronado?
He claimed most of what is now the United States for Spain.
Who is De Soto?
This explorer recognized that Columbus was not in Asia, but landed on a new continent.
This is the goal Columbus had for sailing west instead of south around Africa.
What is "he wanted to find a direct route to reach Asia"?
An agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters.
What is a TREATY?
This was the movement to make everyone in Spain a Catholic.
What is the Reconquista?
What is the Northwest Passage?
These were problems that explorers faced during their expeditions.
What is too expensive, diseases, hunger, storms, wild animals, natives, and shipwrecks?
A rebellion against the leader of one’s group.
What is MUTINY?
These three items were specific things the Spanish Explorers were searching for.