8.0 - Age of Exploration Review

TWO reasons people explored in the 1400s

• Asian spices

• spread Christianity

• learn about new people and culture

• find new animals

Name of the new Portuguese ship with triangular sails

• caravel

• compass

• astrolabe

• rudder

Opened a navigation school in Portugal; credited with starting the age of exploration

• Christopher Columbus

• Sir Francis Drake

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Magellan

First explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Magellan

First explorer find a direct sea route to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Magellan

Captained the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Magellan

To travel around the world

• circumnavigate

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

Credited with finding the New World while trying to find a sea route to India by sailing west

• Christopher Columbus

• Sir Francis Drake

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Magellan

First Englishman to sail around the world

• Christopher Columbus

• Sir Francis Drake

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

 governors of a country or colony, would rule as a representative of a king or queen in a colony

• viceroys

• compasses

• circumnavigates

• caravels