European Exploration

What is an astrolabe?

• A small, fast Portuguese sailing ship

• A navigational tool that used the angles of the sun and stars above the horizon to determine where you were at sea

• The act of traveling all the way around the Earth

• The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New World

What is a caravel?

• A small, fast Portuguese sailing ship

• A navigational tool that used the angles of the sun and stars above the horizon to determine where you were at sea

• The act of traveling all the way around the Earth

• The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New World

What does it mean to circumnavigate?

• A small, fast Portuguese sailing ship

• A navigational tool that used the angles of the sun and stars above the horizon to determine where you were at sea

• The act of traveling all the way around the Earth

• The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New World

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• A small, fast Portuguese sailing ship

• A navigational tool that used the angles of the sun and stars above the horizon to determine where you were at sea

• The act of traveling all the way around the Earth

• The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New World

What is Exploration

• The act of traveling all the way around the Earth

• The Eastern Hemisphere including modern day Africa, Europe and Asia

• The act of traveling to an unfamiliar area to learn about it

• Factors that attracted humans to a particular country or region

These are the Main Motivations for European Exploration

• Glory, Grit, and Grain

• God, Gold, Glory

• God, Ginger, and Grain

• Gold, Greed, and Grease

What is the New World

• The Western Hemisphere including modern day North and South America

• Factors that attracted humans to a particular country or region

• The Eastern Hemisphere including modern day Africa, Europe and Asia

•  Factors that repel humans from a particular country or region

  
  

What is the Old World

• A navigational tool that used the angles of the sun and stars above the horizon to determine where you were at sea

• A small, fast Portuguese sailing ship

• The Western Hemisphere including modern day North and South America

  
  

• The Eastern Hemisphere including modern day Africa, Europe and Asia

What are pull factors

• Factors that attracted humans to a particular country or region

• The main motivations for European exploration

• The act of traveling to an unfamiliar area to learn about it

• Factors that repel humans from a particular country or region

  
  

What are push factors

• The act of traveling to an unfamiliar area to learn about it

• Factors that repel humans from a particular country or region

  
  

• The movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New World

• Factors that attracted humans to a particular country or region