EXPLORERS
This Viking adventurer discovered a land he called Vinland, located in present-day Newfoundland.
Leif Ericson
This Mesoamerican group was known as the "rubber people."
Olmec
Much of early European exploration focused on finding new routes to this part of the world to obtain valuable trade goods.
Indies (Far East)
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
Jamestown
This African man survived a shipwreck and captivity and may have been the first African in North America.
Esteban
This Spanish explorer traveled through the Southeast and reached the Mississippi River.
Hernando de Soto
Tenochtitlan was the main city of this civilization.
Aztec civilization
Columbus persuaded these two Spanish monarchs to finance his voyage west.
Ferdinand and Isabella
This man helped Jamestown survive by requiring the settlers to work and demanding obedience.
Captain John Smith
This journey refers to the voyage enslaved Africans were forced to make from Africa to the Americas.
Middle Passage
This Spanish explorer traveled through the Southwest looking for the legendary cities of Cibola and saw the Grand Canyon.
Francisco Coronado
The leader of the Aztecs when the Spanish conquered them was this ruler.
Montezuma
Spanish conquerors were known by this name.
conquistadors
This crop became a profitable cash crop for the Jamestown settlers.
tobacco
The demand for cheap labor in the Americas created a market for enslaved people from this region.
West Africa
This French explorer was known as the Father of New France and built the fort that later became Quebec.
Samuel de Champlain
The Navajo, Pueblo, Apache, and Hopi lived primarily in this region.
Southwest
This English explorer claimed the Atlantic coast of North America for England in 1497.
John Cabot
This Native American girl married John Rolfe and later traveled to England and met King James I.
Pocahontas
Name ONE hardship faced by the early Jamestown settlers.
Food shortages, disease, impure drinking water, Indian attacks, or fires.
This English sailor sailed around South America, crossed the Pacific, and returned triumphantly to England after raiding Spanish ports.
B:What happened to the Aztec and Incan civilizations after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors?
Sir Francis Drake
B:The Spanish defeated them through warfare, while disease also caused large numbers of deaths.
This belief teaches that all natural objects, living and nonliving, have souls.
B: Name Christopher Columbus Ships
animism
B: Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Spain sent its Armada against England in 1588 for two major reasons: to stop English piracy and to accomplish this religious goal.
B:How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada affect England and Spain?
restoring Catholicism to England
B: Spain lost power, while England gained an opportunity to colonize the New World.
This colony disappeared after John White returned to America after three years, giving it its famous nickname.
Lost Colony of Roanoke
Name THREE reasons why the English founded colonies in America.
B:What was the first representative assembly in America?
Any three:
B:Virginia House of Burgesses