7th Grade: Exploring the Americas - Lesson 1 and 2

Which is a navigational tool?

Why did Portugal want to explore the world?

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe was dominated by ?

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

What helped make long sea voyages possible?

Religious expeditions called the ____ had unplanned results of creating trade between Europe and Asia.

In the early A.D. 600s, a new religion called ____________________ began to spread quickly in the Middle East and Africa.

Genoa, Pisa, and Venice were port cities in the country of ______________________________.

The French word renaissance means ___________________________________.

Which was the largest ship?

Henry the Navigator laid the groundwork of an exploration era for?

From where did Portuguese traders buy enslaved Africans in the mid-1400s?

Who was the 1st explorer to realize that South America was not a part of Asia?

Just as the men on Christopher Columbus’s first voyage were ready to rebel, a lookout on the Pinta spotted land.

By the time the period of European exploration began, most maps included the Americas.