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The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550 Vocabulary List

The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550 Vocabulary List. Power point slide created by Ronna Williams http://www.slideshare.net/Ronna/exploration-vocabulary. A navigational instrument to find the altitude of stars....created by the Arabs & was later replaced by the sextant. Astrolabe.

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The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550 Vocabulary List

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  1. The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550Vocabulary List • Power point slide created by Ronna Williams • http://www.slideshare.net/Ronna/exploration-vocabulary

  2. A navigational instrument to find the altitude of stars....created by the Arabs & was later replaced by the sextant. • Astrolabe

  3. Unsuccessful war by Christians against Muslims to recover the Holy Land~ Also ended Feudalism • Crusades

  4. Aztec Emperor • Montezuma

  5. A geographer whose book Geographia sparked debate about traveling across the Atlantic • Ptolemy

  6. Period of a rebirth of interest in art and science~This period followed theMiddle Ages • Renaissance

  7. Person who led the Spanish Conquest of the Incas in 1533 • Francisco Pizarro

  8. Highly contagious disease causing thousands of tiny soresThe Europeans brought this disease to the Native Americans by accident • Small Pox

  9. The Spice Islands of the East Indies. These islands are today part of Indonesia • Moluccas

  10. Portuguese prince who founded a school to help with the age of exploration • Henry the Navigator

  11. The bubonic plaguewas brought by the Europeans to America and would devastate the Native Americans~What is another name for this plague? • Black Death

  12. North American tribe with a high level of civilization~ruled Mexico • AZTECS

  13. Ruler of the Incan Empire when the Spanish conquered them • Atahualpa

  14. To sail completely around the world • circumnavigate

  15. Name for Spanish conquerors or soldiers • conquistdors

  16. A small fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese explorers • Caravel

  17. First European to see the Pacific Ocean • Vasco De Balboa

  18. Italian navigator who sailed to America in 1497 & may have been the first European to reach the mainland of North America • John Cabot

  19. Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa (The Cape of Good Hope) • Bartholomeu Dias

  20. First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.A favorite of Queen Elizabeth • Sir Francis Drake

  21. Portuguese navigator who sailed around Africa by way of the Cape of Good Hope & made it to IndiaHe founded colonies in Africa,too • Vasco Da Gama

  22. Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain who led the first expedition around the world, but died in the Phillipines. He named the Pacific Ocean!! • Ferdinand Magellan

  23. A Viking adventurer who really is credited with visiting America 500 years before columbus • Lief Ericsson

  24. Famous City of the Aztecs • Tenochtitlan

  25. In 1494 this sealed the pope’s line of demarcation between Spain and Portugal • Treaty of Tordesillas

  26. The Pope who drew the Line of Demarcation • Pope Alexander VI

  27. What were the 3 G’s? • God, Gold, and Glory

  28. Once worked under Pizzaro, but went on to lead his own expedition to explore & discover the Mississippi River • Hernando De Soto

  29. Spanish explorer who discovered the Grand Canyon • Francisco Coronado

  30. Spanish Conquisador who conquered the Aztecs • Hernan Cortez

  31. The Month, Day, and Year Columbus Landed in the West Indies • October 12, 1492

  32. The name Columbus gave to the islands now called the Bahamas • San Salvador

  33. A navigation instrument that uses magnetism to identify the directions of north, south, east, and west • Magnetic Compass

  34. Also known as Norsemen~from Scandinavia • Vikings

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