Exploration and the Columbian Exchange
This explorer wrote a book about his travels in Asia, encouraging Europeans to explore.
Who was Marco Polo?
A new territory established by a country in another land is called this.
What is a colony?
This was an important economic activity for both French and Dutch settlements.
What was the fur trade?
These insects made many Jamestown settlers sick.
What were mosquitoes?
The three G's of exploration are
This was a major goal of the first European explorers: finding a water route to this continent.
What is Asia?
Spanish soldier-explorers, including those who conquered Indigenous peoples in Mexico and Peru, were called this.
Who were conquistadors?
Samuel de Champlain founded the first settlement in this French colonial region.
What was New France?
This is the name of the English colony that developed from the settlement of Jamestown.
What was Virginia?
These two groups of people settled in the Spanish Boarderlands
What are soldiers and missionaries
This exchange moved plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
People who traveled to make converts to their religion were called this.
Who were missionaries?
This Spanish goal involved claiming a large empire in the Americas for Spain.
What was the goal of the conquistadors?
Indigenous people acquired guns through this kind of exchange with the French and Dutch.
What was trade?
This relationship describes the French relationship with the Natives. very different from how the Spanish met them
What is business partners
Many Indigenous people in the Americas suffered this devastating effect after the arrival of Europeans.
What was death from disease?
French fur trappers who learned skills from the Indigenous people they lived and worked with were called this.
Who were coureurs de bois?
The diverse settlers and variety of religions made this Dutch settlement distinctive.
What was New Amsterdam?
This marriage helped bring an end to conflict between Jamestown settlers and local Indigenous people.
What was the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe?
The goal for Spanish missionaries was very different than the conquistadors who wanted to conquer
What is covert Natives' religion?
This forced labor system expanded in North America, where enslaved Africans were made to take the place of Indigenous workers.
What was slavery?
This Spanish missionary goal involved persuading Indigenous people to adopt their religion.
What was conversion to Christianity?
After the English took over New Netherland, it became known by this present-day state’s name.
What is New York?
This company sent settlers to Virginia hoping to earn money from resources such as furs and timber.
What was the London Company?
Who is John Smith