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