Quiz 2-2 (Early Exploration)

What did Henry the Navigator do?

He planned voyages and analyzed the data brought back by the sailors. He also organized a school for navigation to allow for the sharing of the knowledge gained from each trip.

What is saga?

A saga is a traditional story.

Leif Eriksson

Viking sailor

Christopher Columbus

"Admiral of the Ocean Sea"

Name two reasons Queen Isabella agreed to help Columbus financially.

Isabella agreed to sponsor Columbus if he promised to bring Christianity to the lands that he found and she knew if trade opened up with Asia that Spain would become wealthy.

What made planning a journey difficult in the early days of exploration?

Most educated people believed the earth was round but did not know how large it was. They based their estimates on Ptolemy, who underestimated the size of the world.

Why was exploration so important to Portugal?

Portugal lacked a Mediterranean port and could not share in the trade between Asia and Europe. It wanted to find routes to China and India to start trading on its own.

Portuguese

leading explorers in the 1400s

Pacific

means "peaceful"

circumnavigate

to sail around the world