Someone who gives financial support to a person or cause.
A person who buys and sells goods
An outbreak of disease spreading quickly
The buying and selling of humans as property
A settlement far from the country that rules it.
What tool helped European sailors know how far they had sailed from the equator?
Who started the Portuguese navigation school around 1419?
Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agree to fund Columbus's voyage?
How long did Columbus sail before he reached land on his first voyage?
Why did Cortes take Moctezuma prisoner?
What item from the Columbian Exchange most helped the Native Americans?
How did mapmakers help European sailors improve their navigation?
What was Prince Henry's navigation school like?
Why did European merchants want to find a sea route to Asia?
Why was the caravel an improvement over other ships?
Which direction did Columbus sail in his attempt to reach Asia?
What did Columbus name the general area in which he landed?
Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate the earth? Columbus, Magellan, Cortes, Ponce de Leon
How easy is this practice?
What grade are you going to get?
Patron
Merchant
Epidemic
Slave Trade
Colony
Astrolabe
Prince Henry
Profit from trade and spread Christianity.
Five weeks
He wanted to conquer the Aztecs.
Horses
They made more accurate maps.
Sailors, scholars, mapmakers, and ship builders worked together to improve sea travel.
Shipping goods on land took too long and was dangerous. Sailing was faster.
Caravels were lighter than older ships and their sails were more efficient. (Triangular)
West
West Indies
Magellan
Super easy
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