History - Age of Exploration Vocab

A man who funded for people to explore, made a school for Navigators

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Goes to India for spices, wealthy

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Made it to Bahamas, Goal was Western Sea route to Asia and created 1st Spanish colony in the new world called Hispaniola

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Sailed all around the world, got attacked and died and found the strait of magellan

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

America is named after him, land = female, Americo = male, America = female, writes experiences = books = printing press

• America Vespucci

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Conquistadors

• Hernan Cortes

Motivated by economics and to cover it up by saying motivated by religion

• America Vespucci

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Conquistadors

• Hernan Cortes

Pope splits New World between Spain and Portugal

• America Vespucci

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Conquistadors

• Hernan Cortes

Conquered Aztec, Mexico in 1519

• America Vespucci

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Conquistadors

• Hernan Cortes

Conquered Inca, Peru in 1532

• Francisco Pizarro

• Colony

• Viceroy

• Plantation

A settlement of people living in a new area connected to a parent country through trade & government

• Francisco Pizarro

• Colony

• Viceroy

• Plantation