Age of Exploration

The voyage of Magellan was the first to do what?

• travel around the horn of Africa
• circumnavigate the globe
• bring enslaved Africans to Europe
• reach the Americas

What are the 3 G's? (reasons for Exploration)

• God, Guns, Glory
• Goods,  Glory, God
• God, Glory, Gold

The three main factors for exploration are-

• Disease, land, goods and ideas
• Maps,  exchange of goods, farming
• economic, gold, natural resources
• Economic, religious, competition

Sleek ships that could carry large loads long distances 

• telescope 
• Compass 
• Astrolabe 
• Caravel 

used to determine latitude using the position of stars 

• compass
• caravel 
• Astrolabe 
• telescope 

A patron of explorers;established navigation school 

• Hernan Cortez 
• Prince Henry 
• Bartolomeu Dias 
• Vasco da Gama 

1492, sailing for Spain even though he was Italian, he thought he had found the East Indies (in Asia) so when he met the people in the Caribbean Islands he called them Indians. 

• Christopher Columbus 
• Henry Hudson 
• Juan Ponce De Leon
• Jaques Cartier

1534, From France, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia, instead he found the St. Lawrence Seaway and claimed areas in Canada like Quebec for France. 

• Christopher Columbus 
• Henry Hudson
• Juan Ponce De. Leon
• Jaques Cartier

Which technological advances allowed Europeans to explore new areas?

• caravel

• compass

• astrolabe

• improved maps

• penicillin

Which European nation sponsored Columbus' expedition in 1492?
(King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella)

• England
• France
• Spain
• Portugual