Pre-Columbian Explorers - Vocabulary

a member of the population of peoples from the

Arab world, including North Africa and the Middle

East

• Vasco da Gama

• Arab

• Madeira

• Crusades

first historical European to sail around Africa and

reach India

• Henry the Navigator

• Crusades

• Levant

• Vasco da Gama

the islands and neighboring countries in the

eastern part of the Mediterranean

• Madeira

• Levant

• spices

• African gold

a person involved in trade

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• spices

• merchant

• Fall of Constantinople

centuries-long attempt by Christian Europe to

"reclaim" lands from Muslims or pagans--in the

Levant, in Spain, and in Eastern Europe

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Crusades

• caravel

• Fall of Constantinople

spearheaded Portuguese efforts at exploration--

with state backing

• Henry the Navigator

• Arab

• Crusades

• caravel

the Portuguese colony to first practice African

chattel slavery

• Arab

• Henry the Navigator

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Madeira

first historical European to sail around Africa and

reach India

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Henry the Navigator

• Crusades

one of the original great motivators for Portuguese

attempts to reach Asia directly by sea

• spices

• Crusades

• Levant

• caravel

the final take-down of the Byzantine Empire by the

Ottoman Turks

• Crusades

• Levant

• Fall of Constantinople

• Treaty of Tordesillas