Age of Exploration

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

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

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

• gunpowder

• chronometer

• astrolabe

• compass

• compass

• sextant

• octant

• astrolabe

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world by sailing.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

The European explorers referred to the lands they colonized as the ___ _____?

• Old World

• New Spain

• New World

• Native Land

A new type of ship that was strong, maneuverable, and able to sail against the wind

• Pirate Ship

• Caravel

• Canoe

• Viking Boat 

The journeys of Vasco da Gama, Bartholomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the

• support of exploration by the English government

• trade connections established by Ibn Battuta

• effects of the Atlantic slave trade

• development of new navigational instruments and technology

Spain came to America with what purpose?

• to trade with Natives
• for God, Gold, and Glory
• to exchange goods
• to spread diseases