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Pepper, cinnamon, ginger and cloves came from this continent.
What is Asia?
America is named after this Italian explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
A tool that uses a need and magnet to show the pull of the poles and direction for navigation.
What is a compass?
This substance from the chinese gave the Europeans superior strength with the use of cannons and early firearms.
What is gunpowder?
These two empires controlled large areas of Central and South America and were wiped out by the Spanish conquistadors.
Who are the Aztecs and Incas?
This explorer was sent to find the northwest passage which took him up the St. Lawrence River to Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This explorer was sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to go find new land for them.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This invention revolutionized the passing of information across Europe and beyond.
What is the Gutenberg printing press?
This tool measured latitude more reliably than the astrolable. It allowed navigators to read the angle of the sun, moon or stars.
What is a sextant?
This explorer ambushed the Ica emperor Atahualpa.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The famous Italian merchant who wrote about his travels across Europe and described the riches and wonders in the far East.
Who is Marco Polo?
This Italian sailor landed in the new world and though he had reached China. He claimed the region for England.
Who is John Cabot?
This hand-held device helped tell explorers where they were on the sea and could tell them their latitude in relation tothe equator. It measured the angle of the sun/stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This Spanish explorer let settling to one of the first European colonies of santa Maria which is present day Columbia.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Incas.
Trade routes that linked the markets of China and India with those of the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This explorer sailed from Puerto Rica and found Florida in 1513
Who is Ponce de Leon?
This tool let sailors measure logitude for the first time. It helped sailors tell time on the ocean as well.
What is a chronometer?
This explorer wanted to circumnavgate the world and almost succeeded before being killed in the Philippines. He is known for discovering a strait at the southern most point of S America.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This Spanish conquistatdor defeated the Aztecs and conquered Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
This English explorer took 4 voyages to N. America in search of the Northwest Passage. On his 4th voyage his men mutinied and left him behind as they went back to England.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The Portuguese prince who sponsored voyages to explore Africa to obtain ivory and gold.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
This tool was used on ships to help them traps wind coming from all directions so that ships could travel at a much faster speed.
What is a lateen sail?
This era was a time when reformation spread across Europe to change the Catholic church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This explorer is the first European to discover California. He was looking for riches and a water way through the Americas.
Who was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?