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European Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Who was the person who started a school of navigation in Portugal? | Prince Henry the navigator |
Who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? | Bartholomew Dias |
Who "discovered" the Americas? | Christopher Columbus |
Who was the Americas named after? | Amerigo Vespucci |
What did Vasco Da Gama do? | he was the first European to reach India by sea |
What did Juan Ponce de Leon find? | Florida |
Who was the first person to sail around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
What did European Explorers look for? | A direct route to Asia |
What are two things sailors were scared of while traveling | disease and scurvy, starvation, mutiny, lost at sea, and storms |
What did Francisco Pizarro do when in the Americas | conquered the Inca empire |
Line of Demarcation | a line set by the Pope in the Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the undiscovered new world between Spain and Portugal |
John Cabot | claimed land in North America for England |
Queen Elizabeth I | made England a sea power |
What we're european pirates called? | Sea Dogs |
Fleet of ships | Armada |