Chap 2- Age of exploration Flashcards
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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 or look carefully
accurately
Without errors or mistakes.
Vasco Da Gamma
He sailed from Portugal in the year 1497. He searched for a sea passage to India, and found sea route to India.
Bartolomeu Dias
He sailed from Portugal in the year 1487. He searched for a trade route to India, and found the Atlantic and Indian Ocean flowed into each other.
Christopher Columbus
He sailed from Spain in the year 1492. He searched for a westward sea route to reach Asia, and found a new route to India.
Ferdinand Magellan
He sailed from Spain in the year 1519. He searched for the East Indies, and found the channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
He sailed from Spain in the year 1519. He searched for a new sea reportedly to the south and for gold, and found a new ocean and he called named it the South Sea.
Francisco Pizarro
He sailed from Spain 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 northern passage to Asia, and found the Saint Lawrence River, which he named ‘‘The Country of Canadas.”
Giovanni da Verrazano
He sailed from France in the year 1534. He searched for a passage to the Pacific Ocean and Asia, and he thought by sailing along the northern coastline of the New world he would find a new passage way to the West Coast of North America. He found the sites of present-day New York Harbor, Block Island, Narragansett Bay.
Amerigo Vespucci
He sailed from Spain in the year 1400 to 1500. He searched for a passage to India, and found Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he found a new continent, and he named it South America the New World.
Henry Hudson
He sailed from the Netherlands in the year 1609. He searched for the Northeast passage, and found the Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay.
Juan Ponce de Leon
He sailed from Puerto Rico in the year 1508. He searched for the “Fountain of Youth.” He found Florida.
John Cabot
He sailed from England in the year 1497 and 1498. 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 1000 CE. He searched for forests with excellent building timber and grapes, and found wild grapes.
patron
A person who supports another financially
conquistador
A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors in North or South America in the 1500s
expedition
A journey or voyage
empire
A large group of states or countries
