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Age of Exploration

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    European explorers, Mesoamerica
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  • Italian explorer who "discovered" the New World (for Spain) while looking for a route to Asia.
    Christopher Columbus
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  • Mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
    Amerigo Vespucci
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • In 1488, he was the first European to attempt to go around the southern tip of Africa.
    Bartolomeu Dias
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  • 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
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  • Spanish explorer who became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean in 1510 while exploring Panama
    Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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  • A small, speedy, and super-maneuverable sailing ship from the 1400s and 1500s, used by explorers like Columbus
    Caravel
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  • A navigating tool that was used to measure the position of stars and other things in the sky
    Astrolabe
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  • True or false: There was NO/ MINIMAL international trade before the Age of Exploration
    False
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  • What were the three main G's for the Age of Exploration explorers?
    God, glory, gold
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  • What was the initial spark for the Age of Exploration?
    Spices
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  • Viking explorer who reached North America around 1000
    Lief Erikson
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  • Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
    Francisco Pizarro
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  • True or false: Mesoamerican societies were highly complex before the Spanish explorers
    True
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  • Where did the Aztecs inhabit?
    Central Mexico
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