Silk Road Flash Cards

A trade route stretching thousands of miles from China to Eastern Europe

The Silk Road

2 items that’s Europeans wanted from Asia in the 1400’s and 1500’s

silk and spice

The quest to find new trade routes to Asia led to…..

The Age of Exploration

A tool with a magnetized needle that sailors used to determine what direction they were traveling in

Compass

An astrolabe could help sailors determine their direction using…..

Sun and Stars

Maps have largely been replaced with GPS devices, which rely on 30 _____ orbiting the earth

Satellites

The mean or reason for doing something:

motivation

What are the “Three G’s"?”

God, gold, and glory

When people admire, praise, and honor someone because of what they have accomplished:

glory

Sailor’s would do this when they reached new land, in order for them to claim the land

plant a flag

To try to convert someone to a new religion:

proselytize

Missionary John Allen Chau was killed when visiting this island to preach Christianity:

North Sentinel Island

Crops that are grown to make a profit rather than just to feed families:

cash crops

The transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic ocean is called:

Columbian Exchange

The name of the queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus’ journey west across the Atlantic:

Isabella

Italian merchant that searched for a trade route to Asia on a journey sponsored by England:

John Cabot

This Spanish conquistador may have sailed with Columbus before eventually becoming the 1st European to arrive in Florida:

Juan Ponce de Leon

The Spanish conquistador that defeated the Aztec Empire in what is known today as Mexico:

Hernan Cortes

This English explorer, and his son, were banished from their ship after he led his crew into icy waters, trapping the ship:

Henry Hudson

Recent studies from 2024 suggest that rather than being Italian, Christopher Columbus was____

Spanish