Changes in Europe (led to the Great Age of Exploration)
100
Columbus claimed land for this country
What is Spain?
100
Magellan left Spain in 1512 with 5 ships and 250 sailors and passed through a waterway at the tip of this continent
What is South America?
100
country that financed Cabot's expedition to the Indies to claim land and riches
What is England?
100
the country Balboa claimed land for
What is Spain?
100
he started a school of navigation in Portugal in 1418
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
the three ships Columbus set sail with in 1492 were the Nina, Pinta and
What is the Santa Maria?
200
Magellan named the ocean he saw the Pacific which means this
What is peaceful?
200
person who went with Cabot on this expedition to the Indies (described the place as a very lonely place).
Who is his son (Sebastian)?
200
this is what Balboa set up on the island of Hispaniola in Central America
What is a farm?
200
faster ships
What are caravels?
300
the island Columbus reached in the Caribbean after two months
What is San Salvador?
300
Magellan was killed in a battle on these islands
What are the Philippine Islands?
300
Cabot reached Newfoundland, now part of Canada, where this group of Europeans reached about 500 years before and named it Vinland
Who are the Vikings?
300
Balboa led explorers west across this narrow strip of land that connects North and South America
What is an isthmus?
300
he developed a printing press in 1450 that made it faster to print books
Who is Gutenberg?
400
the name of the movement to unite all Spain under Catholic beliefs (this helped Columbus get King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to help finance his voyage to Asia)
What is the Reconquista?
400
the number of Magellan's ships that made it back to Spain
What is 1?
400
a German mapmaker named this continent after Amerigo Vespucci
What is South America?
400
Balboa was the first European to reach this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
the "rebirth" of learning, Science, and art in the late 1400's-early 1500's
What is the Renaissance?
500
name Columbus gave to the people he met in the West Indies
What is Indians?
500
Magellan and his men were the first to do this
What is circumnavigate the world (sail around the world)?
500
Vespucci claimed land for this country
What is Portugal?
500
Balboa helped start a settlement here
What is Panama?
500
a new navigational tool that was developed in the late 1400's-early 1500's to help sailors explore faraway lands and return home