Exploration flocabulary

____________ is figuring out where you are and where you are headed based on the position of the sun, moon and stars.

• Celestial Navigation

• Circumnavigation

• Scurvy

• Caravel

• Navigate

___________ is an Italian explorer who led several transatlantic voyages for Spain. He landed in the New World in 1492.

• Vasco De Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Prince Henry the Navigator

___________ is to travel all the way around something.

• Celestial Navigation

• Circumnavigate

• Sail

• Explore

• Treaty

__________ is a Portuguese explorer whose voyage to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522 brought about the first circumnavigation of the globe.

• Vasco De Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Prince Henry the Navigator

_____________is a Portuguese royal, nicknamed "the Navigator," known for funding Portuguese voyages that explored the west coast of Africa in the early 15th century.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco De Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

__________ is a sometimes fatal disease caused by not having enough vitamin C in the diet.

• Malaria

• Scurvy

• Treaty

• Small Pox

___________ is the passage regularly taken by merchant ships, caravans, etc.

• Trade Route

• Northwest Passage

• Panama Canal

• Merchants Lane

__________ is an official agreement between two or more countries or groups.

• Agreement

• Scurvy

• Treaty

• Contract

_______________ is a Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to India by going around Africa between 1497-1498.

• Vasco De Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand Magellan

Finish this statement correctly.

Because Ottoman Turks were protective of their territory, _____________,

• Europeans set out to find new trade routes.

• Europeans stopped trading with Asia.

• China stopped producing fancy silks, teas and spices.

• Marco Polo returned to Italy after visiting China.