Age of Exploration

These men created maps of the worlds they explored.

• missionaries

• cartographers

• conquistadors

• colonists

This route between Asia and Europe was closed by the Mongolian empire, creating a need for a water route between the two areas.

• Northwest Passage

• Transatlantic Route

• Silk Road

• Indian Ocean Trade Route

He created a school for navigation that assisted explorers as they traveled to the New World.

• Prince Henry

• Queen Isabella

• Marco Polo

• Magellan

This man was paid by Queen Isabella of Spain to expand trade and expand trade. "In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue".

• Columbus

• Cortez

• Cabot

• Castro

He drew the Line of Demarcation, an imaginary line that split lands between Spain and Portugal to hopefully avoid war between the two nations.

• King Carl

• The Pope

• Emperor Palpatine

• Martin Luther

He was the 1st man to circumnavigate (travel all the way around) the globe.

• Magellan

• da Gama

• Erickson

• Pizarro

A conquistador, this man conquered the Aztecs and Montezuma in Mexico.

• Ponce de Leon

• Cortez

• Yukon Cornelius

• Pizarro

He created the "Treasure Fleet" that dominated trade in Asia and created enormous wealth.

• Deng Xiaoping

• Chiang Kai-Shek

• Mao Zedong

• Zheng He

A conquistador, he conquered the Incas and King Atahualpa in South America.

• Pizzaro

• Montezuma

• Columbus

• Machu Picchu

All of the following were major nations involved in Exploration of the New World EXCEPT.....

• Spain

• England

• France

• all of these were major nations during this period