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Italian explorer who "discovered" the New World (for Spain) while looking for a route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
Mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. He didn't make it to the end, but a part of his crew did
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese prince (1394-1460) who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Prince Henry the Navigator
In 1488, he was the first European to attempt to go around the southern tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer. In 1497/ 98 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India (Calicut), opening an important commercial sea route.
Vasco da Gama
Spanish explorer who became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean in 1510 while exploring Panama
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
A small, speedy, and super-maneuverable sailing ship from the 1400s and 1500s, used by explorers like Columbus
Caravel
A navigating tool that was used to measure the position of stars and other things in the sky
Astrolabe
True or false: There was NO/ MINIMAL international trade before the Age of Exploration
False
What were the three main G's for the Age of Exploration explorers?
God, glory, gold
What was the initial spark for the Age of Exploration?
Spices
Viking explorer who reached North America around 1000
Lief Erikson
Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Francisco Pizarro
True or false: Mesoamerican societies were highly complex before the Spanish explorers
True
Where did the Aztecs inhabit?
Central Mexico
