Age of Discovery

He had the African coast mapped even though he had never sailed on a ship in his life.

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolomeu Dias

Political changes disrupted what overland trade route?

• Golden Triangle

• Silk Road

• Slave Trade

• Sugar Rush

Vasco da Gama was the first to...

• find the Silk Road

• arrive in India by way of a water route

• discover America

• make a map of Africa

___ merchants easily brought goods from India and China to the rest of Europe because their country's borders were about 80% coastline.

• English

• French

• Spanish

• Italian

This invention for finding latitude was used by Arab navigators who discovered it from the Greeks.

• Astrolabe

• Printing Press

• Maps

• Rudder

The four major nations who searched for a water route to Asia

• Portugal

• Germany

• France

• England

• Spain

The native tribe who first came into contact with Christopher Columbus

• Taino

• Arab

• Greeks

• Portuguese

Bartolomeu Dias was known for....

• reaching India in 1497

• sailing west to find a water route to Asia in 1492

• funding Columbus' voyage

• sailing to the southern tip of Africa

The Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria brought Columbus and his crews to the island of ____ in October of 1492.

• Hispanola

• Cuba

• Haiti

• San Salvador

By the end of Columbus' life, he believed that he...

• had found a sea route to Asia

• had discovered a new world

• discovered America

• had helped the Taino people