Exciting Explorers
Homeland of Christopher Columbus
Where is Genoa, Italy? (Where is Italy? also accepted)
Points north
What is a compass?
Columbus crossed this
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Created a school for navigators in the 15th century.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Credited with circumnavigation of the earth.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Measures the speed of a ship
What are knots?
Lake where the Mexica tribe located the eagle on the cactus
What is Lake Texcoco?
Aztec Ruler defeated by Hernan Cortes
Who is Montezuma? (II is optional here)
Capital city of the Incan Empire
What is Cuzco?
First to sail round southern tip of Africa
Who is Bartholemew Dias?
Highly manuerverable sailing ship used for exploration
What is a caravel?
Home of the Mayan Empire
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Ruled Mali in the 13th century
Who is Sundiata?
What is the Alhambra?
Claimed New found land for England.
Who was John Cabot (Also accept, Who was Giovanni Caboto)
Aztec agricultural system used over water
What is a chinampa?
Calm ocean named by Magellan
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Hired Giovanni Caboto
King Henry VII of England
Juego de Pelota
What is the ancient Mayan ball game?
First European to sail around Africa and reach India.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Incan data recording system
What is quipu?
Mountains of the Incan Empire
What are the Andes?
Motto of Ferdinand and Isabella
Tanto manta, manta tanto, Isabel como Fernando
African empire in the sahel that fell due to Moroccans with gun.
What is the Songhay Empire?