Explorers
This explorer made several voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening up the Americas to European exploration and colonization. He believed he had found a westward route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
Flat
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
Colonization can be defined as...
When a country takes control of another land, send its people to live there, and use the resources found there to benefit itself.
Colonizing countries include Spain, Portugal, England, France, etc.
Disease, starvation, poor maps and navigational tools were all obstacles faced by who?
Explorers
Jacques Cartier
This device is used to determine direction
Compass
This was the motto used by Europeans to summarize their motivations for exploration:
"God, Gold, and Glory"
Ethnocentrism can be defined as...
A belief that one’s race/culture is better than others.
What animal often came along on ships to hunt rats?
Cats
Explorer working for England who explored North America.
Who is John Cabot?
These were people who created maps and sea charts
Cartographers
The worldview of Europe at the end of the Renaissance included these values and beliefs...
Importance of the individual, High material standard of living, Governments based on democracy, Importance of education, Laws that protect the rights and freedoms of citizens
Expansionism can be defined as...
The view and actions of a country where their goal is to expand its economic power.
What happened to the native populations of North and South America when the Europeans arrived?
Large population wiped out by diseases that they had no natural immunity to because they had never dealt with the diseases before.
"The Navigator" who built a sailing school in Portugal to develop faster ships, new sailing equipment, and more accurate maps.
Who is Prince Henry "The Navigator"?
An instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies.
Astrolabe
The earliest explorers did not set out to find new continents, such as the Americas. What were they looking for when they set sail on unknown seas?
The earliest explorers were looking for routes to Asia.
Imperialism can be defined as...
The view and actions of a country to control other territories and people, so that they depend on the “mother” country.
This disease was caused by a lack of vitamin C and was common among sailors on long sea voyages. Led to weakness, bleeding gums, and death.
Scurvy
This explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Although he was killed before completing the voyage, his crew finished the journey proving the Earth was round.
Ferdinand Magellan
A ________ is a Portuguese ship that used square and triangular sails to travel more efficiently across the world oceans
A Caravel
The age of exploration began in the late part of this century?
The late 1400s.
This system was practiced by Europeans who prioritized wealth through favorable balance of trade by acquiring colonies to benefit the mother country.
Mercantilism
How long could a voyage from Europe to the Americas take in the 1500s?
Over two months