The Great Age of Exploration 1400-
1550Vocabulary List
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exploration-vocabulary
A navigational instrument to find the altitude of
stars....created by the Arabs & was later replaced by the
sextant.
Astrolabe
Unsuccessful war by Christians against
Muslims to recover the Holy Land
~ Also ended Feudalism
Crusades
Aztec EmperorMontezuma
A geographer whose book Geographia
sparked debate about traveling across the
Atlantic
Ptolemy
Period of a rebirth of interest in art and
science~This period followed
theMiddle Ages
Renaissance
Person who led the Spanish Conquest of
the Incas in 1533
Francisco Pizarro
Highly contagious disease causing thousands of tiny sores
The Europeans brought this disease to the Native Americans
by accident
Small Pox
The Spice Islands of the East Indies.
These islands are today part of
Indonesia
Moluccas
Portuguese prince who founded a school to help with the age
of explorationHenry the Navigator
The bubonic plaguewas brought by the
Europeans to America and would devastate the Native
Americans~What is another name for
this plague?Black Death
North American tribe with a high level of
civilization~ruled Mexico
AZTECS
Ruler of the Incan Empire when the
Spanish conquered them
Atahualpa
To sail completely around the world
circumnavigate
Name for Spanish conquerors or soldiers
conquistdors
A small fast sailing ship used by the
Spanish and Portuguese explorers
Caravel
First European to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco De Balboa
Italian navigator who sailed to America in
1497 & may have been the first European to
reach the mainland of North America
John Cabot
Portuguese explorer who reached the
southern tip of Africa (The Cape of Good
Hope)Bartholomeu Dias
First Englishman to circumnavigate the
globe.A favorite of Queen
Elizabeth
Sir Francis Drake
Portuguese navigator who sailed around Africa
by way of the Cape of Good Hope & made it to
IndiaHe founded colonies in
Africa,tooVasco Da Gama
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
A Viking adventurer who really is credited with visiting America
500 years before columbus
Lief Ericsson
Famous City of the Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
In 1494 this sealed the pope’s line of
demarcation between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Pope who drew the Line of
Demarcation
Pope Alexander VI
What were the 3 G’s?
•God, Gold, and Glory
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Once worked under Pizzaro, but went on to lead his own expedition to explore & discover the Mississippi River
Hernando De Soto
Spanish explorer who discovered the Grand
Canyon
Francisco Coronado
Spanish Conquisador who conquered the
Aztecs
Hernan Cortez
The Month, Day, and Year Columbus
Landed in the West Indies
October 12, 1492
The name Columbus gave to the islands
now called the Bahamas
San Salvador
A navigation instrument that uses magnetism to identify
the directions of north, south, east,
and westMagnetic Compass
Also known as Norsemen
~from Scandinavia
Vikings