History Ch. 19 Natelborg
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- China
- Columbus believed he had reached lands just off the coast of this country
- Philippine Islands
- Magellan reached these islands and claimed them for Spain
- Spain
- Which country sponsored westward voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?
- five
- Ferdinand Magellan set out of Spain with this amount of ships
- Germany
- A cartographer in this country named the newly encountered lands "America"
- Europe Africa Asia
- The three continents Middle Age maps showed; no punctuation
- Pedro Cabral
- A Portuguese captain who led a fleet to the Indian Ocean in 1500
- direction
- what the compass showed
- Portugal and Spain
- Explorers from these countries set of in the 1400s
- vitamins
- Many crew members with Magellan died from a lack of this
- galleon
- these ships had both square and triangle sails
- Africa
- Portuguese caravels wanted to sail around where to reach Asia?
- oceangoing
-
European craftworkers invented new
ships - Portuguese
- caravels from which country led the world in exploration
- the Indies
-
Amerigo Vespucci concluded the lands that Columbus called "
" were actually part of a "New World" - Bartholomeu Dias
- a Portuguese captain
- Amerigo Vespucci
- This Italian navigator went on a Portuguese voyage in 1501
- the western coast of Africa
- Portuguese caravels focused on charting where?
- cartography
- the science of making maps and globes
- mapmaking navigation shipbuilding
- Advances in these 3 subjects made voyages possible; no punctuation
- cannons
-
Long-distance trips needed room for a large crew, supplies, and even
- Ferdinand Magellan
- The Strait of Magellan is named after this person
- West
- Pedro Cabral sailed too far in this direction and landed on the east coast of South America
- 1522
- In this year Magellan's last ship returned to Spain
- round-trip
-
Vasco had charted a
route from Europe to Asia - Mercator projections
- these have been widely used by sailors up to the present day
- Pacific Ocean
- Ferdinand Magellan went into this ocean after passing through a strait
- circumnavigated
- meaning: sailed completely around
- southern
-
Dias reached the
tip of Africa - India
- Vasco traveled to this place
- three
-
After
months of sailing, Vasco rounded the tip of Africa - North America and South America
- the voyages of discovery revealed these two continents
- 1493
- "The hidden half of the globe is brought to light" said a scholar in this year
- three
-
Galleons had
masts - 250
- Ferdinand Magellan had a crew of more than
- rowers
-
worked to move ships until the Middle Ages - Latin
-
America is a
version of Vespucci's first name - imaginary
- What type of creatures decorated Middle Age maps?
- Christopher Columbus
- a sailor from Italy
- ordinary
-
Even
Europeans wanted to know about world geography - Gerardus Mercator
- This person published a new world map in 1569
- land
-
sailors could navigate without reference to
with the compass and the astrolabe - geographic
-
the voyages of discovery revealed
wonders to Europeans - open
-
sailors used the compass and astrolabe to navigate the
ocean - gold spices Catholic converts
- Explorers sought these 4 items; no punctuation
- two
- Vasco spent this amount of years before returning to Portugal
- China
- where the compass was invented
- two or three
- the amount of masts caravel had
- islanders
- Magellan died in battle with
- slow heavy
- Two adjectives describing ships that needed large crews and many rowers
- three
- Columbus made this amount of return voyages
- triangular
- the shape of a caravel's sails
- Cape of Good Hope
- In 1488, Dias sailed past what?
- calm
-
Heavy ships were suited for
seas - caravel
- a small, narrow ship with two or three masts and triangular sails
- trade goods treasure
- What three things did galleons carry?; (no punctuation)
- Indian Ocean
- Dias now knew that Europeans could reach the what by sea?
- August
-
Columbus set sail with three ships in
1492 - north west
- Magellan continued in these two directions across the Pacific Ocean; (no punctuation)
- 18
- Only this amount of crew members survived FM's voyage
- September
- In this month Magellan's last ship returned to Spain
- the Bahamas
- Columbus landed on islands now known as this
- galleon
- a large, fast ship
- Renaissance
- What launched a revolution in shipbuilding?
- astrolabe
- determined the ship's north-south position based on measurements of the stars
- stars
- what astrolabes depended on
- cheap
-
Printers made
portable atlases to meet demand - first
-
Dias and his crew were the
Europeans to accomplish what they did - closer
-
Columbus thought Europe and Asia where thousands of miles
than previously thought - Vasco da Gama
- In 1497, this captain sailed south from Portugal
- strait
- Ferdinand Magellans fleet sailed south and went through this object meaning a narrow channel
- western
-
Ferdinand Magellan wanted to find a
route to Asia - caravel
- a new type of boat that was fast and easier to maneuver in different wind and sea conditions
- Ptolemy
- a person who estimated the size of Earth
- Ferdinand Magellan
- launched an ambitious voyage in 1519
- Ptolemy
- a scientist in ancient Greece that CC studied