Vocab
The scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something.
Technology
Conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico
Hernando Cortes
Leader of the first expedition to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Vespucci Explored in what year?
What group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?
The Vikings
A tool using the positions of the stars or sun to help sailors find their latitude, the distance north or south of the equator
Astrolabe
Conquered the Inca Empire in Peru
Francisco Pizzaro
German mapmaker named the “New World” America after him
Amerigo Vespucci
Cabot Explored in what year?
1497
How was Columbus mistaken about the lands he claimed for Spain?
He thought that the lands he had reached were Aisa.
A tool that helped indicate north, south, east, and west. And helped the sailors find their longitude, the distance east or west of the prime meridian
Compass
Sailed for England and landed in present-day Newfoundland
John Cabot
Searched for the Northwest passage in North America
Giovanni Da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus Explored in what year?
1492
What are three reasons for exploration during that time?
God, Gold, Glory
Map maker
Cartographer
Led a large expedition from Mexico to Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Who claimed land in present-day New York for Holland?
Henry Hudson
Erickson (Vikings) Explored in what year?
1000
What was the main reason that Columbus sailed west from Europe and who sponsored the expedition?
To find a more direct water route to Asia
Spain sponsored the expedition.
a tool that kept very accurate time and was used by sailors to find their longitude, the distance east and west of the prime meridian
Chronometer
Explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida
Juan Ponce De Leon
Explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Balboa Explored in what year?
1513
What was the Spanish Reconquista and how did it affect Columbus’s expedition?
A movement in Spain to make all Spain Catholic. Columbus had to wait for the King and Queen to agreed to pay for his expedition until they were no longer busy fighting this war.