WS Chapter 5 Vocab

Spanish explorer whose crew sailed around the world

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Bartolomeu Dias

Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Bartolomeu Dias

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incan Empire

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Bartolomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer who discovered a trade route to India by rounding the tip of Africa

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Bartolomeu Dias

Time period when Europeans sailed the world, exploring

• Age of European Exploration

• Orient

• Requerimiento

• Treaty of Tordesillas

A ship used for European exploration and capable of travel on open seas

• astrolabe

• astrolabe

• caravel

• Requerimiento

A name for the countries of Asia, especially East Asia

• caravel

• Orient

• astrolabe

• Reconquista

The winds blowing from east to west that brought European explorers across the Atlantic Ocean

• astrolabe

• trade winds

• dead reckoning

• Line of Demarcation

An instrument used by sailors to measure the angle between the sun or a star and the horizon to determine latitude

• caravel

• dead reckoning

• astrolabe

• scurvy

Sea navigation using estimation and few instruments

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Reconquista

• dead reckoning

• Requerimiento