Vocabulary
A person who buys and sells good to earn money.
What is merchant (or trader)?
Sailed for Portugal and accidentally reached the coast of Brazil.
Who is Cabral (Pedro Alvarez)?
The most desirable spices came from the islands of present-day Indonesia. These islands were nicknamed?
What are the Spice Islands
A disease caused by a lack of vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
A rebellion of a ship's crew against the captain.
What is mutiny?
Sailed for Spain, was from an explorer family, settled in Hispaniola, and be a priest.
Who is de Las Casts (Bartolome')?
Named Cabo Tormentoso by Bartolomeu Dias and is the on the southern tip of Africa. Today it is called?
What the Cape of Good Hope?
This was so valuable in Europe that is was used in place of coins.
What is peppercorns?
To travel completely around something (such as the Earth), especially by water.
What is circumnavigate?
Sailed for Portugal and was the first European to find route to the Indian Ocean.
Who is Dias (Bartolomeu)?
Cartier sailed up this mighty river of Canada.
What is the St. Lawrence river?
Megellan died before circumnavigating the world. This is where he died.
What is the Philippine Islands?
An imaginary sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Sailed for England, set out with a fleet of 5 ships, only 1 returned, no one knows what happened to him.
Who is Cabot (John)?
Magellan refused to turn around and decided to sail through this narrow body of water. He named it?
What is the Straits of Magellan?
The population of this area on the east coast of Africa was a mixture of Africans, Arabs, and Persians.
What is the Swahili Coast?
A chain of islands.
What is archipelago?
Sailed for France, sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico in 1682.
Who is Rene'-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle?
Balboa and Pizaro explored this area together?
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
A person who owes an employer a certain amount of work for a certain amount of time in exchange for some benefit.
What is an indentured servant?
Someone who represents the government of one country in another country.
What is diplomat?
Sailed for the Dutch but later for England, crew mutinied on the ship named Discovery.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The current name of the island chain where Columbus first landed.
What is the Bahamas?
Inherited the throne of Portugal after King Henry died.
Who is King Philip ll of Spain?