People & Places
This Portuguese noble started a famous school for navigation.
Who is Prince Henry?
A way of life for a group of people, including their beliefs, traditions, and food.
What is culture?
This fast, new type of ship helped explorers sail long distances across the ocean.
What is a caravel?
The nation that established early dominance over exploration claims of the "New World."
Who is Spain?
This Russian explorer charted the northern Pacific, including the coast of Alaska.
Who is Vitus Bering?
This king of Mali was so wealthy his trip across Africa caused a stir.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The idea that the world is becoming more interconnected through trade, communication, and travel.
What is globalization?
This period of new ideas in art and science encouraged people to explore and learn about the world.
What is the Renaissance?
A key limitation of trade along the Silk Roads that made it unreliable.
What were bandits or the high cost of goods?
This person purchased Manhattan Island from a native tribe for the Netherlands.
Who is Peter Minuit?
This Italian merchant traveled to China and wrote a book that inspired explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
This was a system of forced labor used by the Spanish in their new colonies.
What is the encomienda system?
This series of religious wars created a European desire for goods from the Middle East and Asia.
What were the Crusades?
A famous Viking who landed in Newfoundland around the year 1000.
Who is Leif Ericson?
This explorer's voyages led to the mapping of much of the "New World" which was named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The main goal of Columbus's voyage was, according to his letter to the king and queen.
What is gold?
The peak of European exploration voyages occurred in this century.
What is the 1500s?
A new sailing technique that helped sailors get back to Europe faster.
What is Volta do Mar?
He searched for the "Seven Cities of Gold" in the American southwest.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
This agreement divided newly explored lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
A key advantage Europeans had over others when conquering new lands.
What are advanced weapons or diseases?
This was a water route through North America that explorers looked for but did not exist.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The event that forced Europeans to find a new sea route to Asia, as the old land routes were now controlled by the Ottoman Empire
What is the Fall of Constantinople?
This French explorer sailed down the Mississippi River looking for the Northwest Passage.
Who is Robert Cavalier?