Y6 History - Age of Discovery & Exploration

This event caused of the Age of Exploration.

• The invention of the printing press in 1440 by Johannes Guttenberg.

• The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

• The discovery of America by Columbus in 1492.
• The signing of the English Magna Carta in 1215.

Ship invented by the Portuguese, designed for long journeys over the open ocean.

• Frigate
• Galleon
• Clipper
• Caravel

Device that allowed for navigation using the stars to pinpoint one's location.

• Compass
• GPS
• Sextant
• Astrolabe

Disease, common among sailors, originating from a lack of vitamin C.

• scurvy
• Smallpox

• Iron Lung

• rickets

Name for a mapmaker.

• Geographer
• Navigator
• Cartographer
• Explorer

What was the most sought after Asian good for Europeans at this time?

• Spices

• Tea

• Porcelain

• Silk

First man to find a sea route from Europe to India.

• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry the Navigator
• Vasco da Gama

Man who financed much of the early Age of Exploration, and built a school for sailors & shipbuilders.

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus

First European to sail to the southern most point of Africa.

• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Bartolomeu Dias

Man who was credited with being the first to circumnavigate the planet. (even though he died during the voyage)

• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• James Cook
• Vasco da Gama