An Age of Exploration Adventure

Beyond the
Horizon

Voyages into Uncharted Waters · 1487–1522

Best with sound on 🔊 · Keyboard, mouse or touch

Typus Orbis Terrarum

The World as Europe knew it · Anno Domini MCDXC

Ship’s Boy

Accomplishments

How to Sail

↑→↓← or WASDSteer North, East, South, West. Press two at once for NE, SE, SW, NW.

🧭Or tap a point on the compass rose (bottom-left), or click & hold on the sea to steer.

SpaceReef (shorten) sails — slower but safer in storms.

🌬Sail with the wind for speed. Straight into the wind you barely move!

🐟Fish = food. Rain squalls = fresh water. Bottles = Codex scrolls.

C chart · P pause · M mute · +/− zoom

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Latitude (astrolabe)

Longitude (dead reckoning)

Speed

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Codex ·

The Navigator’s Codex

Key terms of the Age of Exploration — collect them all on your voyages.

The Royal Shipyard

Spend your ducats to improve your caravel. Upgrades last for every voyage.

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Your Chart

Your route so far. Grey mist marks uncharted waters.

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Music Sound effects Ocean & wind

Report to the Crown

Voyage Complete

A whole-class game for the projector

Race to the Spice Islands

Split the class into two crowns. Portugal sails east around Africa; Spain sails west across the Atlantic and Pacific. Each round, both teams answer the same question (on whiteboards or through a team captain). You mark each team right or wrong, and the ships sail. Right answers bring fair winds and streak bonuses; wrong answers still move, just slowly.

Team names

Race length

Short · 10 questions (about 10 min) Standard · 15 questions (about 15 min) Long · 20 questions (about 20 min)

Question types

Geography & directions Key terms Explorers & events 30-second timer

Teacher shortcuts: 1/2 Portugal right/wrong · 9/0 Spain right/wrong · R reveal answer · Enter sail / next

Race to the Spice Islands

What really happened: The race was real. Portugal reached the Spice Islands first, in 1512, by sailing east around Africa. Magellan's Spanish fleet arrived from the west in 1521. Both crowns claimed the islands, because no one could measure longitude well enough to tell which side of the Tordesillas line they were on. In the Treaty of Zaragoza (1529), Spain gave up its claim in exchange for 350,000 ducats.

All four voyages complete

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

You have sailed with Dias around Africa, with Columbus across the Ocean Sea, with da Gama to India, and with Magellan and Elcano around the whole world. The Crowns of Portugal and Spain name you Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the title Columbus himself was given.

🎁 Your reward: a golden caravel for every future voyage, and 500 ducats from the royal treasury.

✦ Sailors whisper that a golden glyph has appeared on your map, somewhere in the New World…

Your name for the royal decree

The Other Shore · Tenochtitlan 1519–1521

Charting the seas…

Beyond theHorizon

How to Sail

The Navigator’s Codex

The Royal Shipyard

Your Chart

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Report to the Crown

Race to the Spice Islands

Team names

Race length

Question types

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Beyond the
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