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Portugal and Spain |
Explorers from these countries set of in the 1400s |
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gold spices Catholic converts |
Explorers sought these 4 items; no punctuation |
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mapmaking navigation shipbuilding |
Advances in these 3 subjects made voyages possible; no punctuation |
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Europe Africa Asia |
The three continents Middle Age maps showed; no punctuation |
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imaginary |
What type of creatures decorated Middle Age maps? |
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cartography |
the science of making maps and globes |
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China |
where the compass was invented |
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direction |
what the compass showed |
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astrolabe |
determined the ship's north-south position based on measurements of the stars |
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stars |
what astrolabes depended on |
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land |
sailors could navigate without reference to <blank> with the compass and the astrolabe |
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open |
sailors used the compass and astrolabe to navigate the <blank> ocean |
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Renaissance |
What launched a revolution in shipbuilding? |
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rowers |
<Blank> worked to move ships until the Middle Ages |
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slow heavy |
Two adjectives describing ships that needed large crews and many rowers |
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calm |
Heavy ships were suited for <blank> seas |
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oceangoing |
European craftworkers invented new <blank> ships |
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caravel |
a small, narrow ship with two or three masts and triangular sails |
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two or three |
the amount of masts caravel had |
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triangular |
the shape of a caravel's sails |
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caravel |
a new type of boat that was fast and easier to maneuver in different wind and sea conditions |
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cannons |
Long-distance trips needed room for a large crew, supplies, and even <blank> |
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galleon |
a large, fast ship |
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three |
Galleons had <blank> masts |
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galleon |
these ships had both square and triangle sails |
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trade goods treasure |
What three things did galleons carry?; (no punctuation) |
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Portuguese |
caravels from which country led the world in exploration |
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the western coast of Africa |
Portuguese caravels focused on charting where? |
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Africa |
Portuguese caravels wanted to sail around where to reach Asia? |
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Spain |
Which country sponsored westward voyages across the Atlantic Ocean? |
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Bartholomeu Dias |
a Portuguese captain |
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Cape of Good Hope |
In 1488, Dias sailed past what? |
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southern |
Dias reached the <blank> tip of Africa |
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first |
Dias and his crew were the <blank> Europeans to accomplish what they did |
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Indian Ocean |
Dias now knew that Europeans could reach the what by sea? |
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Vasco da Gama |
In 1497, this captain sailed south from Portugal |
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three |
After <blank> months of sailing, Vasco rounded the tip of Africa |
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India |
Vasco traveled to this place |
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two |
Vasco spent this amount of years before returning to Portugal |
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round-trip |
Vasco had charted a <blank> route from Europe to Asia |
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Christopher Columbus |
a sailor from Italy |
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Ptolemy |
a scientist in ancient Greece that CC studied |
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Ptolemy |
a person who estimated the size of Earth |
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closer |
Columbus thought Europe and Asia where thousands of miles <blank> than previously thought |
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August |
Columbus set sail with three ships in <Blank> 1492 |
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the Bahamas |
Columbus landed on islands now known as this |
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China |
Columbus believed he had reached lands just off the coast of this country |
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three |
Columbus made this amount of return voyages |
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Pedro Cabral |
A Portuguese captain who led a fleet to the Indian Ocean in 1500 |
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West |
Pedro Cabral sailed too far in this direction and landed on the east coast of South America |
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Amerigo Vespucci |
This Italian navigator went on a Portuguese voyage in 1501 |
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the Indies |
Amerigo Vespucci concluded the lands that Columbus called "<blank>" were actually part of a "New World" |
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Germany |
A cartographer in this country named the newly encountered lands "America" |
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Latin |
America is a <blank> version of Vespucci's first name |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
launched an ambitious voyage in 1519 |
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five |
Ferdinand Magellan set out of Spain with this amount of ships |
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250 |
Ferdinand Magellan had a crew of more than |
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western |
Ferdinand Magellan wanted to find a <blank> route to Asia |
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strait |
Ferdinand Magellans fleet sailed south and went through this object meaning a narrow channel |
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Pacific Ocean |
Ferdinand Magellan went into this ocean after passing through a strait |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
The Strait of Magellan is named after this person |
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north west |
Magellan continued in these two directions across the Pacific Ocean; (no punctuation) |
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vitamins |
Many crew members with Magellan died from a lack of this |
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Philippine Islands |
Magellan reached these islands and claimed them for Spain |
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islanders |
Magellan died in battle with |
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September |
In this month Magellan's last ship returned to Spain |
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1522 |
In this year Magellan's last ship returned to Spain |
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18 |
Only this amount of crew members survived FM's voyage |
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circumnavigated |
meaning: sailed completely around |
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geographic |
the voyages of discovery revealed <blank> wonders to Europeans |
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North America and South America |
the voyages of discovery revealed these two continents |
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1493 |
"The hidden half of the globe is brought to light" said a scholar in this year |
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ordinary |
Even <blank> Europeans wanted to know about world geography |
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cheap |
Printers made <blank> portable atlases to meet demand |
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Gerardus Mercator |
This person published a new world map in 1569 |
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Mercator projections |
these have been widely used by sailors up to the present day |
