The Age of Exploration: Portugal & Spain

In 1497,

Vasco da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and sailed to India.

Spanish conquistadors

________ (soldiers) used force to take control of the Caribbean Islands, Central and South America, the Southwest region of the United States, and Florida.

Pedro Cabral

________ claimed the land that is now Brazil in 1500.

Prince Henry the Navigator

________ set up a naval research center in 1420.

Ferdinand Magellan

________ was the first to sail around the tip of South America.

1488

In ________, Bartholomeu Dias explored the southern tip of Africa.

Line of Demarcation

The ________ (1493) was an imaginary line running from the North to South Pole.

Christopher Columbus

An Italian sailor who found monetary support from the king and queen of Spain.

Ferdinand Magellan was given credit for

circumnavigating the globe, although he died before they completed the voyage.

Chirstopher Columbus sailed West and Landed on

current day San Salvador (Bahamas).