Flashcards: Early European Explorers PPG
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Pampearson on October 26, 2010
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Galician | English |
|---|---|
| Vasco da Gama |  the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa. |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese, supported exploration, started navigation school. |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered the Americas |
| Ferdinan Magellan | his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. |
| John Cabot | Italian who sailed for the English and may have landed in Canada |
| circumnavigate | sail around the world |
| Columbian Exchange | movement of plants, animals, and people between Europe and the Americas |
| spices | reason for finding shorter and faster trade routes |
| Portugal | Prince Henry's country, first to explore Africa's coast |
| Spain | country Columbus represented |
| Queen Isabella | Queen of Spain who sponsored Columbus's trip to the new world |
| diseases | peolpe in the Americas died from these |
| Christianity | religion Europeans wanted to spread |
| slaves | Africans bought to work for Europeans |
| imperialism | when a country controls the government and economy of another territory or country |