exploration vocabulary
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The Great Age of Exploration 1400-1550
Vocabulary ListPresented by Ronna Williams
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A navigational instrument to find the altitude of stars....created by the Arabs &
was later replaced by the sextant.
Astrolabe
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Unsuccessful war by Christians against Muslims to recover the Holy Land~ Also ended Feudalism
Crusades
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Aztec Emperor
Montezuma
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Capital of Inca Empire in Peru
Cuzco
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seaman or sailor
Mariner
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An astronomer, mathematician, and
geographer whose maps were considered the
best there was.
Ptolemy
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Navigational instrument which helps determine the position of a ship by
measuring the angle between the horizon & heavenly body
~replaced the astrolabe
Sextant
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Huge Mayan city located in Guatemala
Tikal
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Period of a rebirth of interest in art and
science~This period followed
theMiddle Ages
Renaissance
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Person who led the Spanish Conquest of the
Incas in 1533
Francisco Pizarro
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Highly contagious disease causing thousands of tiny sores
The Europeans brought this disease to the Native Americans by accident
Small Pox
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The Spice Islands of the East Indies. These
islands are today part of Indonesia
Moluccas
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Portuguese prince who founded a school to help
with the age of exploration
Henry the Navigator
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shipwrecked African slave who guided
Coronado~He was killed by the Pueblo in New MexicoEsteban Dorantez
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The bubonic plagueIt was a disease carried
by rat fleas
Black Death
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North American tribe with a high level of
civilization~ruled Mexico
AZTECS
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a colorfully illustrated Aztec book
Codex
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Ruler of the Incan Empire when the
Spanish conquered them
Atahualpa
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To sail completely around the world
circumnavigate
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spanish conquerors
conquistdors
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Portuguese explorer who discovered the mouth of
the Congo River
Diogo Cao
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A small fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and
Portuguese explorers
Caravel
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First European to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco De Balboa
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Italian navigator who sailed to America in 1497 & may
have been the first European to reach the
mainland of North America
John Cabot
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Father of Lief Ericson
Eric the Red
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Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa (The Cape
of Good Hope)
Bartholomeu Dias
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First Englishman to circumnavigate
He was a pirate who destroyed Henry the Navigator’s school in
PortugalSir Francis Drake
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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
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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
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A Viking adventurer who really is credited with visiting America 500
years before columbus
Lief Ericsson
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Famous City of the Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
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In 1494 this sealed the pope’s line of
demarcation between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Once worked under Pizzaro, but went on to
lead his own expedition to explore & discover the
Mississippi River
Hernando De Soto
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Spanish explorer who discovered the Grand
Canyon
Francisco Coronado
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Spanish Conquisador who conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortez
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Mythical seven cities of gold believed to exist in America’s
westCoronado was inspired by these rumors & discovered the Grand
Canyon
Cibola
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refers to the time before Columbus arrived
in the New World
Pre-Columbian
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the name Columbus gave to the islands now called
the Bahamas
San Salvador
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A navigation instrument that measures the
altitude of heavenlybodies
Quadrant
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son of John Cabot who explored the coast ofGreenland & North America in 1509
Sebastian Cabot
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also known as Norsemen~from Scandinavia
Vikings