Age of Exploration

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Europeans learned about the astrolabe through contact with ___________.

Europeans first used gunpowder to take enslaved captives in _________.

The voyage of Ferdinand Magellan was the first to _______.

The best way European sailors learned to handle ocean currents was by _______.

Which explorer laid the basis for Spanish claims in the Americas?

News of the invention of gunpowder traveled from China westward by way of the _______________.

All of the following inventions helped the early explorers navigate at sea EXCEPT the _________.

The compass helped Europeans navigate at sea. Its magnetized needle points to the magnetic _______.