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Exploration and Technology
A Changing World
Spanish Exploration
Other Nations Explore
Vocabulary
100
Group of Europeans that reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
100
To find a more direct water route to Asia.
What is the main reason Columbus sailed west?
100
The empire Hernando Cortes conquered in Mexico.
Who were the Aztec?
100
A waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
100
The use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something.
What is Technology?
200
European nation that sponsored Columbus's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
What did Spain do?
200
He thought he had reached Asia.
What was Columbus belief about the lands he reached?
200
This Spanish conquistador took control of the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
200
A waterway Verazano, Cartier, and Hudson search for in North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is Expedition?
300
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were too busy fighting a war called the Reconquista to make everyone in Spain Catholic.
Why did Columbus have to wait to start his voyage?
300
The leader of the first expedition to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
He explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
He explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas.
Who was Henry Hudson?
300
The science of planning and following a route.
What is Navigation?
400
This included money to pay for ships, crew, and supplies. Ships could sink or an explorer might not find anything of value. They wanted to find gold, furs, and other valuable resources. Also claim new land, gain power and spread Christianity.
What were some of the costs and benefits for explorer and their sponsors?
400
He explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean?
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
400
He explored and claimed for Spain what is now the Southwestern United States.
Who was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
400
His crew mutinied and set him adrift at sea.
What happened during Hudson's last voyage?
400
A religious teacher sent out by a church to spread its religion.
What is Missionary?
500
They needed better maps and new technology for long voyages and lots of money to pay for their expeditions. They faced great dangers in exploring unknown seas and lands.
What were the problems that early explorers faced?
500
Amerigo Vespucci did not see lands that matched Asia and Balboa's crew reached the Pacific Ocean.
What were two facts that proved Christopher Columbus did not find Asia?
500
He explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of what is now the United States.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
500
Many Europeans believed the Northwest Passage would be a shortcut to Asia for trade and would bring them wealth and power.
Why did many Europeans want to find the Northwest Passage?
500
Any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s.
What is Conquistador?