European Exploration

a time of great discovery; during the late 1400s and 1500s

• The Middle Ages

• The Age of Confusion

• The Age of Discovery

• The Golden Ages

scientists who find and study artifacts to learn about and explain history

• archaeologists

• artifacticians

• mathematicians

• magicians

a metal tool that uses the sun or other stars to give location north or south of the equator

• compass

• map

• sundial

• astrolabe

a tool that uses magnetic forces to point north, helped sailors navigate even in fog and darkness

• astrolabe

• compass

• map

• sun dial

more land = more natural resources = more money = more ____________

• problems

• people

• power

• pets

Why might explorers carry a bible with them to new lands?

• to convert people to Christianity

• they didn't

• to deliver the bible to their priest

• for the fun of it

What was money printed on during the Age of Exploration?

• paper

• money didn't exist

• wood

• gold and silver

What cash crop was originally used in ceremonies and as medicine that Europeans lated became addicted to?

• corn

• wheat

• tobacco

• indigo

Reasons why people wanted to leave Europe (bad things about Europe)

• push factors

• pull factors

Reasons why people wanted to go to the New World (good things about the Americas)

• push factors

• pull factors