The Age Of Exploration

Exploration

100

What are 3 obstacles or fears that sailors faced in the 1400s

Sea monsters, flat world, boiling water, disease, starvation, maps

200

Name 2 reasons why explorers were willing to risk their lives to explore the unknown.

Gold, Fame/fortune, Claim land, spread Christianity, Northwest passage to Asia

300

Name 3 activities a sailor might have participated in during free time on the ship

Hobbies, Dancing, Singing, Playing the fiddle

400

Name 2 things sailors ate on the ship

Hard Tack, salt horse, fish

500

what do each of these chores entail?

running the ropes

swabbing the deck

pumping the bilge

Making knots

sweeping and washing floors

pumping water out of the lower deck

Christopher Columbus

100

Name the 3 ships Columbus used for his first voyage

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

200

Columbus thought he landed in the Indies. Where did he actually land? And in what year?

The Bahamas in 1492

300

What country financed Columbus's voyage?

Spain

400

 What was the reason for his trip?

to find the Northwest Passage to Asia

500

Columbus took some of the Natives agains their will and forced them to become ________________.

Slaves

Prince Henry AND Magellan

100

How many voyages did Prince Henry go on?

Zero

200

Who attempted to circumnavigate the earth? What does circumnavigate mean?

Magellan. To sail or travel all the way around something, especially the world.

300

What did Prince Henry's school teach?

Navigation Skills

400

On Magellan's voyage, the sailors were so hungry. What did they end up eating?

Saw Dust, Rats, Leather

500

How many ships made it back at the end of Magellan's voyage? Where did Magellan die?

1 ship / He died in the Philippines

Spanish Explorers

100

I counquered the Aztec Empire

Hernando Cortes

200

I was searching for the Foutain of Youth

Ponce de Leon

300

I explored the Mississippi River

Hernando de Soto

400

I was in search of the seven cities of gold - instead we saw the Grand Canyon when we were exploring

Fransisco de Coronado

500

I was wounded by a poinson arrow and died shortly after

Ponce de Leon

North East Explorers

100

I founded Newfoundland for England, but on my 2nd journey I disappeared. No one knows what happened to me and my crew

John Cabot

200

I discovered the St. Lawrence River

Jacques Cartier

300

My crew left me, my son, and a few crew members on a boat with no oars in the middle of a bay. 

Henry Hudson

400

I founded France's first settlement in Quaebec

Samuel de Champlain

500

Name 2 explorers who sailed for England

Name 2 explorers who sailed for France

England - John Cabot and Henry Hudson

France - Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain