The Age of Discovery

Why was Prince Henry known as “the Navigator?”

• Henry owned a globe when many people thought the world was flat.

• helped unlock the secrets of Africa

• he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa.

• Henry believed that Africa was not infinite and that if his sailors could circumnavigate the continent;

Henry also employed cartographers. What is a cartographer?

• a visionary

• a sailor

• map maker

• go around

What is a visionary?

• a person who dreams dreams to see them come true

• someone who can imagine something that hasn't yet happened

• someone who has seen the past and knows that it will happen

• someone who sees into the spiritual world

Bartholomeu Dias proved that it was possible to

• find a water route to India.

• travel from Portugal to India.

• circumnavigate Africa when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the “Cape of Good Hope.”

• create the most sophisticated maps of their time.

India is located in what Continent?

• Europe

• North America

• South America

• Asia

What ocean did Vasca da Game have to cross to get to India?

• Pacific Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Arabian Ocean

What sea did Vasca da Gama have to enter to get to India?

• Red Sea

• Mediterranean, Sea

• Arabian Sea

• Black Sea

the southern tip of the continent, of Africa is

• The Cape of the Solid Rock

• The Cape of the Indians

• The Cape of Good Hope

• The Cape of Visions and Dreams

Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. Who was this sailor?

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

Explain how Prince Henry’s actions allowed Portuguese sailors to reach India many years after his death.

• helped unlock the secrets of Africa

• Henry set up a school for sailors to learn the secrets of the ocean

• He paid for many sailing expeditions

• employed cartographers 4.

• all of the above