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21 Cards in this Set
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Three Causes of Exploration |
New Inventions, The Crusades, and The 3 G's |
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What were the three Gs? |
Gold (wealth), God (spreading Christianity), Glory (fame) |
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Three new inventions that caused exploration (with descriptions) |
Caravel - new type of ship that was faster and could carry more goods Magnetic Compass - more accurate compass Astrolabe - measured time, latitude, date, year, and month |
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What could an astrolabe measure? |
An astrolabe could measure time, latitude, date, year, and month |
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What were the Crusades? |
Holy wars between the Christians and Muslims to retake the holy land of Jerusalem |
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What were established as result of the Crusades? |
Trade routes to India |
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Prince Henry the Navigator |
From Portugal, never sailed but convinced sailors to explore the west African coastline or "Sea of Darkness" |
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Bartholomew Dias |
From Portugal, sailed west coast of Africa farther than the southern most tip of Africa before turning back |
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Vasco Da Gama |
From Portugal, sailed Indian Ocean from Portugal and first sailed completely around Africa |
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Christopher Columbus |
From Spain, in 1492 sailed to America or the "New World" searching for India. |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
From Spain, sailed the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519 |
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Ponce de Leon |
From Spain, discovered Florida when he didn't return to Spain with his crew |
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Hernando de Soto |
From Spain, discovered the Mississippi River and lots of undiscovered land in search of gold |
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Francisco Vasquez Coronado |
From Spain, explored lots of western North America in search of cities made of gold |
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Giovanni da Verrazano |
From France, explored Northeast America (New York) and there is a bridge named after him |
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Samuel De Champlain |
From France, explored Northeast America and established Quebec (modern day city) |
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Robert De La Salle |
From France, explored Canada and established St. Louis |
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Jacques Carter |
From France, explored Canada and thought he found China (wrong) |
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Marquette and Joliet |
From France, sailed Mississippi River and recorded the new wildlife they found |
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Sir Francis Drake |
From England, sent to sail to Chile and took down many ships on his journey (getting rich) |
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John Cabot |
From England, and explored Canada. He returned to England and falsely told the king he found China to fund his next voyage. |
