A time where people were eager to make new discoveries. A time where many explorers made new discoveries and new achievements.
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| 1709841278 | Crusades | Series of five wars fought between Christians and Muslims for control of Palestine | 0 | |
| 1709841279 | Astrolabe | A tool that uses the stars,sun,moon,and planets to help determine location.A tool that uses the stars,sun,moon,and planets to help determine location | 1 | |
| 1709841280 | Gridded Map | A map of vertical and horizontal lines(longitude and latitude) for locating a specific place; helped explorers find/give more exact locations | 2 | |
| 1709841281 | Caravel | Small maneuverable Portugese ships that were fast and easy to ride over waves. It made it easier to sail faster, into difficult areas, and it handled the sea conditions. | 3 | |
| 1709841282 | Lateen Sails | Triangular Sails that helped sailors use the wind to their advantage. Improved sailing and gave new opportunites to sailors. | 4 | |
| 1709841283 | Compass | A tool used to show the direction of North. This helped sailors know where they were going. | 5 | |
| 1709841284 | New France | A part of Canada colonized by the French. | 6 | |
| 1709841285 | New Spain | The land that was colonized by Spain | 7 | |
| 1709841286 | Leif Erickson | Voyaged to America in 1000 A.D with fellow vikings | 8 | |
| 1709841287 | Christopher Columbus | Was trying to find the East Indies and instead discovered America | 9 | |
| 1709841288 | Amerigo Vespucci | Realized America was not India like everyone thought it was and renamed it America | 10 | |
| 1709841289 | Ferdinand Magellan | In 1519 he was the first to successfully sail around the world although he and most of his crew did not survive but his ship made it back to Spain in 1522 | 11 | |
| 1709841290 | Conquistador | A spanish explorer who took over American land from Natives | 12 | |
| 1709841291 | Francisco Pizarro | Francisco Pizarro: In 1532 he captured the Incan emperor and killed him in order to take over land for Spain. | 13 | |
| 1709841292 | Hernan Cortes | He settled in Cuba as an encomendero and gathered a force of about 600 Spaniards and enslave Africans and set sail in 1519. His army battled and defeated American Indians on the coast of Mexico. | 14 | |
| 1709841293 | Monctezuma | The emperor of the Aztecs | 15 | |
| 1709841294 | Aztecs | A civilization located in modern day Mexico. This civilization was over thrown by Hernan Cortes. | 16 | |
| 1709841295 | Atahualpa | The Incan emporer who was captured and promised to fill his large prison quarters with silver and gold. The Incans fulfilled this ransom but Atahualapa was still killed. | 17 | |
| 1709841296 | Incas | A civilization conquered by Francisco Pizarro. The Incan people were divided after the chaos of their civilization. | 18 | |
| 1709841297 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of goods and ideas between the Old world and the New world that was started after the discoveries of 1492 | 19 |
