Name_______________________________Date__________________#__________
Social Studies, Chapter 3, Lesson 3 Outline
III. European Explorers
A. The Vikings
1. The Vikings were skilled ____________________.
2. In their sleek wooden ____________________, powered by only
____________________ and sails, they sailed as far east as
____________________, as far south as ____________________
____________________, and as far west as ____________________
____________________.
3. ____________________ the Red sailed to Iceland, but was thrown out. So
he sailed to____________________. It was a very____________________
land.
4. He called Greenland because he wanted to ____________________
Icelanders to come.
5. Eric’s son,____________________ ____________________ landed on
____________________on the east coast of what is today______________.
6. His men found grapes there, so they called the place
____________________, or “Land of Wine”
7. Conflict broke out between the ____________________ and the American
Indians. By about 1015, those Vikings returned home.
8. The Vikings did not have a ____________________ language. They created
long spoken tales called ____________________ , repeated from one
generation to the next. Later they were ____________________ down.
9. ____________________evidence also tells us about them.
B. The Renaissance
1. In____________________, a new age was beginning. It was known as the
____________________, a word that means ____________________.
2. It marked the beginning in ____________________ and
____________________and a desire to____________________ more about
the world.
3. Italian cities, like Venice, had become centers of____________________ with
places in other parts of the world. The ____________________ this trade
created helped to support the ____________________ and
____________________.
4. Italians studied the learning of____________________European cultures,
such as the ____________________and____________________, and of
other cultures in the world, such as the____________________and
____________________.
5. The Renaissance spread to other parts of____________________. In
Germany in about 1450, ____________________ ____________________
developed a ____________________ ____________________, a machine
that made it possible to ____________________ large numbers of books.
This invention allowed books to become available to many more readers.
Now new ____________________ could spread quickly.
6. Other advances came in ____________________ design and ship
____________________. Europeans adopted the____________________
____________________from the Chinese and the____________________
from Muslims.
7. Europeans made their ships____________________ and
____________________. This allowed them to____________________
farther and farther from Europe.
C. The Portuguese Explore the African Coast
1. Problems getting goods from Asia sparked a drive to find new
____________________routes to Asia.
2. Beginning in the 1420’s, ____________________took the lead. The king’s son,
Prince____________________, gathered the best and most experienced sea
____________________, ____________________,
ship____________________, and other experts. They shared their knowledge
to hire____________________ and design ships that could develop new
sea____________________.
3. To guide ships along the way, they used improved methods
of____________________.
4. On each voyage, ____________________traveled farther than the last,
____________________the African shore and____________________ sailing
conditions.
5. Portugal’s ships began bringing home African____________________.
6. The Portuguese also profited from the ____________________
____________________, the buying and selling of human beings.
7. Slave traders took captured people into and out of____________________ along
the ____________________ trade routes.
8. The Portuguese and other Europeans began transporting
____________________ captives to Europe, where they became
____________________ or ____________________.
9. A slave is owned by a____________________ and has
no____________________.
D. A Sea Route to India
1. In 1488, ____________________ ____________________ discovered the
____________________ ____________________after his ships had been
blown around the southern tip of____________________.
2. He called the tip of Africa, the “____________________ of
____________________”, but the king of Portugal renamed it the Cape of
____________________ ____________________.
3. In 1497, ____________________ de Gama and his four ships rounded Africa,
sailed ____________________ across the Indian Ocean, and reached
____________________in 1498.
4. There they bought____________________ at low prices and shipped them back
to ____________________.
5. Portugal’s sea routes made it a ____________________ trading
____________________.
E. Exploration Continues
1. Advances in sailing gradually____________________ how far and how fast
ships could ____________________.
2. By the late 1400’s, Europeans had established new ocean trade routes to
____________________ and ____________________.
3. The____________________ Hemisphere and the ____________________
Hemisphere were coming into lasting____________________ with each other.