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Viking Exploration
Searching for Riches
Better Navigation Tools
Portuguese Explorers
Reaching India
100
Most Europeans looked for routes to trade with what continent?
What is Asia
100
By what year did trade between Europe and Asia increase?
What is 1400's
100
How did they travel faster?
What is by sea
100
Led the search route to find sea route to Asia.
What is PORTUGAL
100
How many years did Prince Henry spend providing money for voyagers?
What is 40 years
200
Where were the Vikings from?
What is Scandinavia
200
What are merchants?
What is a person who buys and sells good.
200
Process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land.
What is NAVIGATION
200
Son of Portugal King/what did he start
What is Prince Henry/started a school to teach navigation and map making.
200
Explorer from 1492 that led a 3 ship expedition to Africa.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
300
What towns did they raid?
What is European towns
300
What popular Asian goods did Europeans buy?
What is silk and spieces
300
Invented the magnetic compass
What is Chinese
300
The sailors Henry hired explored what
What is the west coast of Africa.
300
When the Portuguese reached Africa what did they name it?
What is Cape of Good Hope
400
Famous Viking named...
What is Eric the Red
400
Who attacked the traders and what did they steal?
What is thieves/stole their property
400
The needle of a compass always points.....
What is NORTH
400
Stores and small settlements where goods could be bought and sold.
What is trading posts
400
What explorer came 10 years later? What did he do?
What is Vasco da Gama/crossed Indian Ocean and reached India.
500
From where to where did he sail?
What is Norway to Iceland
500
What did European rulers want to find?
What is a sea route to Asia to obtain riches.
500
Tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
What is astrolabe
500
What did Henry trade?
What is gold and ivory
500
What type of trade was open between India and Portugal
What is Spice trade