Early American Exploration

What was the main goal of Prince Henry’s navigation school?

• to start a colony in America

• to establish the slave trade

• to build naval ships

• to find and control trade routes with Asia

Place the explorers name over the route they traveled.

a

b

c

Leif Erickson

Hernan Cortes

Bartolomeu Dias

Ferdinand Magellan

Christopher Columbus

Put the following in order to create a timeline of exploration.

• Christopher Columbus sails from Spain to North America

• Prince Henry creates a school for navigation

• Hernan Cortes leads an expedition into Mexico

• Leif Erickson travel from Scandinavia to what is now Canada

• Bartolomeu Dias sails from Portugal to the southern point of Africa

Which of these is called a Caravel?

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Match the picture of the tool with the name and use.

• Gunpowder: used in canons and guns

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• Compass: points to the North Pole

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• Sextant:

  tells latitude and longitude

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• Astrolabe: finds the height of the sun

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• Chronometer: tells exact time

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Match the explorer with his accomplishment.

• led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe

• Ferdinand Magellan

• led an expedition to Mexico for gold

• Francisco de Coronado

• explored what is today New Mexico

• Hernan Cortes

A​ (a)   was a Spanish conqueror who came to North America to take land, gold, and goods.

• conquistador
• expedition
• empire
• Aztec

A ​ (a)   is a settlement or area far from the country that rules it.

• colony
• conquistador
• epidemic
• explorer

A disease that spreads quickly because people have no immunity to it is called an​ (a)   .

• epidemic
• conquistador
• colony
• astrolabe

Which of the following was an outcome of exploration that was NOT an intended goal of the Age of Exploration?

• Gold and Resources
• Spread Diseases
• Spread Christianity