Early Explorers

An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars

• circumnavigate

• astrolabe

• conquistador

• plantation

triangular sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind

• circumnavigate

• caravels

• conquistador

• charter

First navigator to circumnavigate the the world

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Conquistadors

to go all the way around the world

• circumnavigate

• Northwest Passage

• Spanish Armada

• Middle Passage

Ferdinand Magellan

• was from Spain

• was from Portugual

• was the first to go to North America

• was the first to circumnavigate the world

triangular sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind

• circumnavigate

• caravels

• conquistador

• charter

transferring plants from plants, animals and ideas from one continent to the other

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Spanish Armada

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Circumnavigate

• Spanish Armada

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Circumnavigate

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Circumnavigate

• Middle Passage