English Enlightenment and Age of Exploration

True or False: Asian Spices were in high demand in Europe and encouraged exploration

• True

• False

Europeans wanted to convert more people to what religion?

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Taoism

True or False: Marco Polo's stories of travels through Asia inspired others to explore

• True

• False

What 2 achievements enabled explorers to navigate to far away places and return home?

• Google Maps

• Compass

• Astrolobe

• Telescope

Christopher Columbus

• Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

• Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

• The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans

• Philosophical movement that changed the way people thought (politics, religion, rights, etc).

Vasco Da Gama

• Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

• Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

• The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans

• Philosophical movement that changed the way people thought (politics, religion, rights, etc).

Columbian Exchange

• Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

• Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

• The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans

• Philosophical movement that changed the way people thought (politics, religion, rights, etc).

Enlightenment

• Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

• Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

• The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans

• Philosophical movement that changed the way people thought (politics, religion, rights, etc).

Built a navigation school and paid for people to sail on exploration voyages

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Prince Henry

• Francisco Pizarro

Who sailed around the southern tip of Africa?

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Prince Henry

• Francisco Pizarro