Explorers
Marco Polo
Explorer who traveled through Asia and wrote many books detailing his journey and the riches of asia these books would help to inspire the age of exploration as the many Europeans looked for easier routes
Crusades
a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
Mutiny
an open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers.
Middle Ages
the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from c. 1100 to 1453.
Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor of the printing press
Christopher Columbus
The first european to reach the new world by traveling west and sailing across the atlantic ocean his journey is considered a tragedy and a triumph his arrival led to columbian exchange.
Circumnavigate
sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world).
Colony
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Bartolome de las Casas
Spanish priest who visited the colonies and reported the terrible treated of native americans he hoped this would eneerage the spanish to treat the natives better his view was very uncommon during this time period because most explorers were doing the same thing as columbus
Vasco Da Gama
Portuguese explorer who sailed around the cape of good hope and made it to asia and he was first to find all water route to Asia
Magnetic Compass
It functions as a pointer to "magnetic north", the local magnetic meridian, because the magnetized needle at its heart aligns itself with the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field.
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named for Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Ponce de Leon
Spent most of his life searching for the fountain of youth also claimed florida for spain.
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Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer who sailed to the cape of good hope and turned around he is credited with establishing portuguese colonies on the western coast of africa
Astrolabe
An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the altitude above the horizon of a celestial body, day or night.
Printing Press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
Caravel
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Designed a new faster ship caravel
Set up navigation school
Encouraged sea captain's to said the coast of west Africa to establish new trade routes for portugal