European Exploration

A device used in early navigation to chart the position of stars

• Compass

• Astrolabe

• Caravels

• Magnets

He is credited with "discovering" the New World.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Hernando Cortez

Created a school for exploration, sailing and map reading

• Prince Henry

• Christopher Colombus

• Leif Eriksson

• Vasco de Gama

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella paid for his voyage to the "New World"

• Prince Henry

• Christopher Columbus

• Samuel de Champlain

• Vasco de Gama

Columbus' voyage set off an exchange of goods, ideas, technology, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean is known as the...

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Transatlantic Trade

• The Silk Road

Columbus went _____________ from Europe to try to reach Asia.

• north

• south

• east

• west

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology

• conquistador

• settlement

• circumnavigate

The most common reasons to explore the New World were

• Food, Fun, and Fame

• Gold, God, and Glory

• Religon, Routes, Rulers

The trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas in 1400s and 1500s was known as

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

• The Slave Trade

The all water route to Asia that explorers in the New World were searching for is known as the...

• The Silk Road

• The Cape of Good Hope

• The North Pole

• The Northwest Passage