Age of Exploration

-Device that used stars to find latitude

-Helped sailors navigate at night

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​Astrolabe

Southern end of Africa


First reached by explorers from Portugal in 1488

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​Cape of Good Hope

Ship with triangular sails to sail against the wind

Ships could sail in any direction!

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Caravel

Arrived on an island in the Caribbean in 1492.

Explorer from Spain who believed he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean

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Christopher Columbus

Device with a special needle that always points NORTH

We think it was invented by the Chinese

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​Magnetic Compass

2 explorers from Portugal

First to find a sea route to Asia by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope

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Dias and Da Gama

1st European country to sponsor (pay for) exploration

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Portugal

1st Europeans to reach North America in the year 1000

They did not permanently settle in North American

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Vikings

Exchange of goods, plants, animals, diseases, and humans between the Old World and the New World.

Started with Columbus' voyage in 1492

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​Columbian Exchange

Explorers who came to the Americas to conquer land and people for SPAIN.
Helped Spain create an empire in the Americas.

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Conquistador

Islands that are between Asia and

Australia in the Pacific Ocean

Where Columbus THOUGHT he

landed in 1492!

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East Indies

Reasons for European exploration:

GOD, GLORY, GOLD
БОЖЕ, СЛАВА, ЗОЛОТО

Spread Christianity, take over land

for power, find wealth/riches/$$$

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The 3 Gs

"New World"

Name Europeans used to refer to

the Americas (North and South)

Western hemisphere

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The New World

A water route through, or around,

North America that explorers

searched for

NEVER found!

Northwest Passage

"Old World"

Name Europeans used to refer to

Europe, Asia and Africa

Eastern hemisphere

Old World

West Indies

Islands in the Caribbean Sea

Where Columbus ACTUALLY landed in 1492

West Indies