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Explorers
Explorers
Renaissance & Vocabulary
England and Portugal
France and Spain
100
He thought that he could sailed west and arrived in India.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
Founded a school of Navigation at Sagres
What is Henry the Navigator
100
around the 14_____ things began to change in Europe.
What is 1450
100
In the 1600’s Portugal started to explored the interior of Brazil and found
What is Gold and diamonds
100
Who finance Christopher Columbus expedition to find a new route to Asia.
What is Spanish King and Queen
200
Named the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope
What is Bartolomeu Dias
200
In 1488, he reached the southern tip of Africa.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
200
New technologies during the Renaissance such as ____________ help to the Discovery of America
What is printing press or Caravels
200
Arrived in Brazil by accident in 1500
What is Pedro Alvarez Cabral
200
In what voyage did Christopher Columbus discover Puerto Rico
What is Second Voyage
300
One of the first people to understand that this was a “New world” and not part of Asia.
What is Amerigo Vespucci
300
Decided to built stronger and faster boats to allow Portuguese to sail around the African continent.
Henry the Navigator
300
To completed a trip by sea around the earth.
What is circumnavigate
300
In 1607, arrived in America and founded Virginia.
What is John Smith
300
founded Quebec in 1608, the first French colony in the Americas.
What is Samuel de Champlain
400
his last voyage he tried to find a passage to Asia but failed.
What is Christopher Columbus
400
Died on 1511 on his expedition around the world
What is Ferdinand de Magallan
400
Economic system in which countries want to obtain as much gold and silver as they could.
What is Mercantilism
400
Which colony was the first English colony in the Americas?
What is Virginia
400
He claimed the region for France and claimed it Louisiana. (today part of the U.S.A)
What is La Salle
500
He stayed away from the rough seas near African coast, and sailed further into the Atlantic until he reached lower latitudes
What is Vasco da Gama
500
Year in which Puerto Rico was discovered by Columbus
What is 1493
500
did not allowed Europeans to travel by land to Asia.
What is Ottoman Turks
500
In 1497, explored some of the coast lines of America and claimed them for England.
What is John Cabot
500
Name 2 French colonies in the Caribbean.
What is Martinique, Saint Kitts, Guadeloupe and the western half of the Hispaniola (Haiti).