Age of Exploration

A period during the 1400’s and 1500’s in which many explorers sailed the ocean and mapped the world.

• Age of Empires

• Age of Exploration

• Bronze Age

• Caravel

A settlement made by a parent company.

• City

• Astrolabe

• Caravel

• Colony

An instrument used by sailors to observe the position of the stars.

• Motivation

• Astrolabe

• Colony

• Caravel

Small, fast ship with a broad bow.

• Caravel

• Astrolabe

• Conflict

• Cooperation

Exchange of goods, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas.

• Northwest Passage

• Colony

• Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

What does circumnavigate mean?

• To move the sails in a circular motion
• To use circles to locate key areas on a map.
• To travel in a circle from one area and back
• To travel completely around the earth

What early explorers were most interested in finding?

• Water routes to the New World
• Water routes to Africa's west coast
• Water routes to Asia
• Water routes to the Middle East

These were all reasons that Europeans set out to explore EXCEPT:

• curiosity
• adventure
• glory for their country
• to help native Americans

Why is the Western Hemisphere referred to as the New World.

• It was created after the Eastern Hemisphere

• The ideas of the Westerners were were new to the Eastern Hemisphere

• The Eastern Hemisphere did not even know this existed before the Age of Exploration

• The Western Hemisphere was a new opportunity for many.

What were the 3 reasons/motives the conquistadors came to the New World?

• God, Gold, Goods

• Gold, Silver, Bronze

• God, Gold, Glory

• God, Land, Spices