Exploration
Three motives for exploration
The place he showed explorers the way to.
What is the Americas?
First people to arrive in North America
Who are the Vikings?
Great ship for storing supplies on long journey
What is the Caravel?
The MAIN purpose of the voyage of the first Portuguese explorers that sailed along the coast of Africa was
What is to find a water route to India's spices?
Columbus's motive for exploring
What is find a shorter sea route to the Spice Islands?
He wrote a book about his travels and brought his ideas back to Italy from China
Who is Marco Polo?
The tool used to look at the stars
What is the astrolabe?
The major trade route between China and Europe
What is the Silk Road?
Define the Columbian Exchange.
What is the movement of goods and people from western and eastern hemisphere?
The main goal of Prince Henry's navigation school
What is to find and control trade routes?
The tool that used directions N, S, E, W
What is the compass?
Name 3 problems explorers faced
Disease/sicknesses, storms, fight with the natives
List two goods that were brought from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern
What is potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes, corn, squash, string beans, pumpkins, avocados, peanuts, vanilla, pineapples, strawberries, or rubber?
The treatment Native Americans faced from explorers
What is taken by force, made into slaves, and lost their land?
Tool that used latitude and longitude
What is a map?
A fourth reason for exploration
List two or more goods brought from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere
What is wheat, oats, apples, carrots, cabbages, onion, garlic, mules, oxen, and diseases?
Followed Prince Henry's sea routes around Africa
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Helped ships sail faster
What is the triangle sail?