exploration vocabulary
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The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550
Vocabulary ListPresented by Ronna Williams
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 Emperor
Montezuma
Capital of Inca Empire in Peru
Cuzco
seaman or sailor
Mariner
An astronomer, mathematician, and
geographer whose maps were considered the
best there was.
Ptolemy
Navigational instrument which helps determine the position of a ship by
measuring the angle between the horizon & heavenly body
~replaced the astrolabe
Sextant
Huge Mayan city located in Guatemala
Tikal
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 exploration
Henry the Navigator
shipwrecked African slave who guided
Coronado~He was killed by the Pueblo in New MexicoEsteban Dorantez
The bubonic plagueIt was a disease carried
by rat fleas
Black Death
North American tribe with a high level of
civilization~ruled Mexico
AZTECS
a colorfully illustrated Aztec book
Codex
Ruler of the Incan Empire when the
Spanish conquered them
Atahualpa
To sail completely around the world
circumnavigate
spanish conquerors
conquistdors
Portuguese explorer who discovered the mouth of
the Congo River
Diogo Cao
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
Father of Lief Ericson
Eric the Red
Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa (The Cape
of Good Hope)
Bartholomeu Dias
First Englishman to circumnavigate
He was a pirate who destroyed Henry the Navigator’s school in
PortugalSir Francis Drake
Portuguese navigator who sailed around Africa by way of the Cape of Good Hope
& made it to IndiaHe founded colonies in
Africa,too
Vasco Da Gama
Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain who led the first
expedition around the world, but died along the way. 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
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
Mythical seven cities of gold believed to exist in America’s
westCoronado was inspired by these rumors & discovered the Grand
Canyon
Cibola
refers to the time before Columbus arrived
in the New World
Pre-Columbian
the name Columbus gave to the islands now called
the Bahamas
San Salvador
A navigation instrument that measures the
altitude of heavenlybodies
Quadrant
son of John Cabot who explored the coast ofGreenland & North America in 1509
Sebastian Cabot
also known as Norsemen~from Scandinavia
Vikings