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5thSFDS3L1+2
5th Grade SFdS Chapter 3 Lessons 1 and 2
| Key Item | Definition |
|---|---|
| Technology | The scientific knowledge and tools |
| Navigation | The science of planing and following a route |
| Expedition | A trip taken with the goal of exploring |
| Empire | Is made up of lands ruled by the nation that won control of them |
| Entrepreneur | They set up and run a business |
| Cost | Effort made to achieve or gain something |
| Benefit | Reward gained |
| Reconquista | The movement to make Spain all Catholic |
| Marco Polo | Wrote a book about his voyage to Cathay (China) |
| Johannes Guenburg | Developed a printing press in the 1450s |
| Prince Henry | Opened a school of navigation |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailor who disagreed that the only way to reach Asia was to go east |
| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | Argeed to help Christopher Columbus and pay for his voyage |
| San Salvador | An island on which all three of Columbus's ships were anchored |
| Isthmus | A narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas |
| Treaty | An agreement between countries |
| John Cabot | Italian sailor paid by the king to lead an expedition sailing west across the Atlantic |
| Amerigo Vespucci | The man America was named after; sailed down to the coast of South America |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | One of the first Europeans to settle in the Americas |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Proved that Vespucci was right with the aim of finding a western route to Asia |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to move the dividing line further west |