Borders the Atlantic Ocean and home to the first leaders in exploration.
What is Portugal?
100
The two countries that fought over ownership of the New World
What are Spain and Portugal?
100
He wanted to find the WESTERN route to Asia
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This type of ship had triangular sails and a large center rudder
What is a Caravel?
100
He promised to continue around the tip of Africa and find riches for the King of Portugal.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
Sponsored the travels of Columbus and several others. Ferdinand and Isabella ruled this country.
What is Spain?
200
The two modern day continents that were divided
What are North American and South America?
200
He sailed south from Portugal to the southern tip of Africa and then returned home.
Who is DIAS?
200
The names of Columbus's three ships
What are the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
200
The three things Columbus promised in return for Spain providing his ships and crew
What are riches, new land, Catholic Converts
300
The tip of Africa is known as this!
What is The Cape of Good Hope?
300
The proper name for the dividing point of the New World
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
He landed in Panama and claimed to discover the Pacific Ocean
Who is Balboa?
300
Where da Gama eventually landed
What is India?
300
The inventor promised that this will allow a sailor to know exactly where he was by charting the stars
What is an astrolabe?
400
The southern tip of South America honors this man who was the first to circumnavigate the world!
What is the Strait of Magellan?
400
The full name of the person who divided the New World
What is Pope Alexander the Sixth?
400
Known for his school of navigation and observatory, he helped encourage the explorers.
Who is Prince Henry?
400
His name lives on because of a German mapmaker.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
He said, "Dad, I promise you that I will carry on your explorations and love of adventure" in areas such as Greenland and Newfoundland.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
500
The NORTHERNMOST place that Columbus landed in the New World, it is an island chain to the east and southeast of Florida.
What are the Bahamas?
500
The name of the decision made to move the line of ownership a little bit more to the west
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
He too sailed west, rounded the tip of South America and was killed in the Philippines. He is a FIRST despite the fact that he did not return home!
Who is Magellan?
500
Five things that came TO EUROPE because of The Columbian Exchange
What are Cocoa, Corn, potatoes, tobacco, turkeys, squash, tomatoes, pineapple, avocados, pumpkins...
500
He promised his readers that what he wrote was true - he had seen flying birds the size of a house, rocks that burned and women with infant sized feet.