Age Of Exploration Flashcards
merchant
A person who buys and sells goods for profit.
slave trade
Getting, transporting, and selling human beings as slaves.
navigation
The process of planning a route and finding one`s location
astrolabe
An instrument used in navigation that measures the sun and stars.
caravel
A small, fast sailing ship.
examine
To inspect in detail.
accurately
Without errors or mistakes.
Vasco Da Gama
He sailed from Lisbon,Portugal in the year 1497.He searched for a sea passage to India, and found a sea route to India.
Bartolomeu Dias
He sailed from Lisbon,Portugal in the year 1487.He searched for a trade route to India, and found that the Atlantic and Indian Ocean flowed into each other.
Christopher Columbus
He sailed from the Palos,Spain in the year 1492.He searched for a new route to India,China,Japan and Spice Islands, and found an Island he named San Salvador which is now part of the Bahamas.
Ferdinand Magellan
He sailed from Southern Spain in 1519.He searched for South-East Asia, and found the channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
He sailed from Santa Maria,Panama in 1513.He searched for a new sea reportedly to the south and for gold, and found a new ocean that today is called the Pacific Ocean.
Francisco Pizarro
He sailed from Panama in the year 1528.He searched for gold and other riches, and found the Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Cartier
He sailed from France in the year 1534. He searched for gold, spices, and a passage to Asia, and found a map to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River.
Giovanni da Verrazano
He sailed from France in the year 1523. He searched for a westward route to China, and found the sites of present-day New York Harbor, Block Island, and Narragansett Bay, and was the first European explorer to name newly discovered North American sites after persons and places in the Old World.
Amerigo Vespucci
He sailed from Spain in the year 1499. He searched for a passage to India, and found the mouth of the Amazon River.
Henry Hudson
He sailed from Netherlands in the year 1609. He searched for the Northeast Passage, and found two bodies of water later named after him: the Hudson River in present-day New York, and Hudson’s Bay along the Arctic coast of present-day Canada.
Juan Ponce de Leon
He sailed from Puerto Rico in the year 1508. He searched for gold, and found Florida.
John Cabot
He sailed from England in the year 1497. He searched for the possibility of reaching Asia by sailing westward, and found Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island on the North American coast.
Leif Erikson
He sailed from Greenland in the year in the year 1000. He searched for the land sighted by Bjarni, and found wild grapes and wheat fields.
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