Age of Exploration

The period of time, beginning in the late 1400s, in which European explorers looked for new routes to Asia and discovered the Americas.

• Age of Exploration

• Age Before Common Era

• Age of the New World

Someone who creates maps...

• Cartographer

• Historian

• Archaeologist

• Marine Biologist

An early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars, along with the horizon.

• cannon

• astrolabe

• caravel (ship)

• compass

A person who travels in search of gold, God, or glory

• archaeologist

• geographer

• cartographer

• explorer

The name that Europeans used to refer to the Americas (anything in the Western Hemisphere)

• Age of Discovery

• Canada

• Newfoundland

• New World

A community ruled by another country, but not its own people

• city

• state

• country

• colony

A Spanish Conquistador who was responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire...

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

A Spanish Conquistador who killed Atahualpa after he accepted ransom for his release.  His expedition led to the fall of the Inca Empire.

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan

The supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found

• Secret Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Northern Shortcut

• Northwest River

The creation and use of tools to meet practical needs; also refers to the tools themselves... An example would be a compass or a caravel

• culture

• cartography

• technology

• geography