2. Age of Discovery

3. Explorers Magellan, Columbus, Pizarro, Cortes, Vespucci, Dias, Da Gama, and Prince Henry

4. Well Educated Discovered the Amazon River Two continents are named after him Who is this explorer?

5. Amerigo Vespucci

6. King John II of Portugal funded his expedition Had the title of Count Discovered an Ocean route from Portugal to the East (Sailed around Africa to India)

7. Vasco da Gama

8. Had a globe Considered a Visionary Was a Prince Opened a school of Navigation

9. Prince Henry the Navigator

10. Responsible for giving Spain a power base in Mexico Claimed all his actions were for the benefit of the King and Christianity Conquered the Aztecs

11. Hernan Cortes

12. Was Italian, but sailed for Spain Wanted to find a westerly route to the Indies Had four voyages to the New World Accidently discovered the Americas

13. Christopher Columbus

14. Gained fabulous wealth before he died Spanish Conquistador Conquered the Incas

15. Francisco Pizarro

16. Portuguese Explorer Was a Noble Well Educated Sailed to the tip of Africa Discovered the Cape of Good Hope

17. Bartholomew Dias

18. Portuguese Nobility Discovered the Straits of Magellan 1 st person to circumnavigate the earth

19. Ferdinand Magellan

20. Vocabulary

21. To travel around the world by ship

22. Circumnavigate

23. The defeat of this showed that Spain was weakening as a world power and England was gaining stregnth

24. Spanish Armada

25. Spanish Adventurers whose main motivation was Gold (Wealth)

26. Conquistadors

27. The movement of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas

28. Columbian Exchange

29. These Monarchs financially supported Columbus’ voyages

30. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

31. The movement of goods (including slaves) between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

32. Triangular Trade

33. Major crops grown on plantations

34. Tobacco, Cotton, and sugarcane

35. Traded from Africa to the Americas and used to work on plantations

36. Slaves

37. The Treaty that was created by the Pope. It was an imaginary line that determined which new lands Spain and Portugal could claim

38. Treaty of Tordesillas

39. Geography

40. United Kingdom/England

41. Spain

42. Portugal

43. Italy

44. Misc.

45. Horses and Cattle came from the Old World

46. Corn and Potatoes came from the New World