The Age of Exploration and Explorers

This explorer "Discovered the New World"

• Jacques Cartier

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

This explorer is famous for being the first to circumnavigate the world.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

• Hernan Cortes

The land route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.

• Water Road

• Spice Road

• Silk Road

This explorer defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed all of Mexico in the name of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

These are tools used by sailors.

• Columbian Exchange

• Compass

• Astrolade

European invaders of the Americas defeated...

• Native Americans (Aztecs and Incans)

• Global Exploration

• Climate Change

Another name for Europeans who took over the Americas was

• Native Americans

• Inventors

• Conquistadors

When plants, animals, and diseases, were shared between the Americas and the rest of the world after Columbus's rediscovery of the Americas

• The Great Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Sharing Time

Europeans wanted to find a way to Asia so they could get...

• Silks

• Technology

• Spices

• Gunpowder

The "New World" was...

• Asia

• Europe

• North America and South America