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Vasco DaGama Assignment

 

Use your notes to answer the questions. Be sure to use complete sentences.

 

1.       Explain, using details, why people in DaGamas’s time did not think it was possible to sail from Portugal, around Africa to India.  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.       Compare and contrast the Portugal explorers and the Vikings. Be sure to include details about where, when and why they explored the world. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.       Label the continents and the oceans on the map of the world (notice that Antarctica is not drawn on the map).  Draw in the route that Vasco DaGama is famous for.  Mark Portugal with an X and mark India with an O.

 

4.       Would you have liked to be a member of DaGama’s crew?  Why or why not? Be sure to use details in your answer. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

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