Early Explorers
This explorer was the first to step onto Canadian soil.
Who is Leif Erickson?
In 1492 this man sailed the "Ocean Blue."
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These were highly skilled French Protestants?
Who are the Hugonauts?
This group of captains raided Spanish ports and boats hoping to steal gold.
Who were sea dogs?
This is the strait that it is believed that Asians crossed through to populate the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait
This group created a uniform writing system to trade to other nations throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This man looked for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Ponce De León?
It was this industry that drove the French to establish settlements in North America.
What is the fur industry?
It was the defeat of this that allowed English dominance of the North American colonies.
What was the Spanish Armada?
This best describes the first Native civilizations, wondering around without settling down.
What is nomadic?
This was where Christopher Columbus thought he landed.
What is India?
Hernando De Soto found this landmark, now a major means of transportation for cargo into the interior of the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
Samuel de Champlain was known as the father of this.
What is New France?
This man laid claim to the Atlantic coast for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I.
Who is John Cabot?
This is the belief that spirits reside in everything around: trees, grass, sky...
What is animism?
This is the current name for the landmass that the Vikings used to begin their exploration farther west.
What is Greenland?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This region in Canada is still proud to speak French due to it's heritage from being a part of New France.
What is Qubec?
This sea dog circumnavigated the globe hoping to escape the Spanish Armada who laid a trap for him.
Who is Sir Francis Drake
This group of tribes used Totem Poles to tell the history of their tribe.
Who are the West Coast Native Americans?
According to Welsh Tradition, this prince sailed to the Americas in 1170.
Who is Maddoc?
This Spanish couple sponsored Christopher Columbus' expedition.
It was this river that was discovered by Jaques Cartier.
What is the St. Lawerence River?
This word was the only thing found at the lost colony set up by Sir Walter Raleigh when he came back with supplies.
What is Croatoan?
The Woodland Indians formed this alliance to protect one another.
What was the Iroquois League of Five Nations?