European Exploration Motivation
A long journey by sea.
What is a voyage?
To steer or direct a ship or airplane.
What is navigate?
Site where the pilgrims landed.
What is a Plymouth Rock?
A fair way to make a decision amongst a large group of people.
What is vote?
A governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and attacks.
Who is William Bradford?
A person who travels in search of new geographical information.
What is an explorer?
A tool that shows which direction is north.
What is a magnetic compass?
English Separatists who founded Plymouth colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilrims?
A form of government where citizens have a say in how the government is run.
What is a democracy?
Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.
Who is Squanto?
The 3 G s of why Europeans explored new lands.
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
An astrolabe is an instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the_________.
What are stars?
The ocean that is on the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand.
What is direct democracy?
A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others
What is a missionary?
A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations
What is a caravel?
A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.
What is a colony?
A form of democracy in which citizens elect representatives to vote.
What is representative democracy?
English explorer who is the first recorded European to land in North America.
Who is John Cabot?
Valuable commodities that were traded all over Europe and Asia.
What are spices?
The country Europeans wanted to travel to in order to buy spices.
What is India?
A state of extreme hunger.
What is starvation?
A missionary with the Native Americans in North America.
Who was Issac Jogues?