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Cartographer | mapmakers |
Astrolabe | an instrument that determined latitude at sea |
Caravel | a fast moving ship that combined both square and triangular shaped sails for the first time |
Scurvy | a disease caused by lack of vitamin C |
Circumnavigate | to sail around the world |
Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who hoped to expand Christianity and find the source of African gold He gathered cartographers scientists and ship builders to prepare crews for long voyages |
Vasco da Gama | Vasco da Gama reached the spice port of Calicut in India in 1497. |
Christopher Columbus | backed by Spain he tried to reach the Indies in Southeast Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa | discovered a passage through Panama to an ocean which he called the South Sea |
Ferdinand Magellan | charted a passage around the southern tip of South America and gave the Pacific Ocean its name His crew became the first people to circumnavigate the world |
Amerigo Vespucci | America gets its name from this Italian sailor A German mapmaker read reports from this sailor and labeled the lands as America. |
Line of Demarcation | line drawn by the pope to divide land that could be conquered by the Spanish and Portuguese |
Treaty of Tordesillas | agreement by Spain and Portugal to divide conquered lands between the two of them. |
John Cabot | Italian man who while looking for the Northwest Passage discovered Newfoundland worked for the English |
Henry Hudson | English man who while looking for the Northwest Passage explored the Hudson River worked for the Dutch |
Jacques Cartier | French man who while looking for the Northwest Passage explored the St. Lawrence River |