European Exploration
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in what year?
1492
Led exploration in Portugal by paying for sailors and explorers to voyage around the coast of Africa.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Potatoes are originally from Peru meaning they are also from...
The New World
Made up of the the America's including the Caribbean
The New World
After hearing of African leaders such as Mansa Musa who were very rich, the Portuguese wanted access to that type of wealth by searching for this...
Gold
found a water route to India by sailing around southern Africa.
Rice is originally from Asia meaning it's also from the ...
Old World
An instrument that uses a needle that is always pointed North
Compass
Bartolomeu Dias reached the southern tip of African known as...
The Cape of Good Hope
This explorer intended to go to India by sailing west and instead found the island of Hispaniola.
Christopher Columbus
Influenza, Measles, Typhus, and Malaria are all examples of ...
Diseases
made up of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia
The Old World
Giovanni Da Verrazano explored the American east coast from what is now ____ to ___
North Carolina to Maine
This explorer went on four voyages and now have a river and bay named after him.
Henry Hudson
Vanilla is from the New World and originally found where?
Mexico
A ship that could sail more closely to the wind
Caravel
A consequence of European Exploration was that Native Americans were forced to follow this religion
Christianity
This explorer traveled to Canada- including the St. Lawrence and Quebec, and claimed the land for France.
Jaques Cartier
Decreased the Native American population
The invasion and taking control of a place or people by military force
Conquest