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Historians believed that this Viking from Scandinavia landed on North America around A.D. 1000.
Leif Ericson
In October of 1492, Columbus reached this island which is translated "Holy Savior."
San Salvador
A movement to drive the Muslims from the land in the Middle East.
The Crusades
Conqueror and governor of Puerto Rico. Made the first Spanish landing in Florida.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Led an expedition that explored the St. Lawrence River.
Jacques Cartier
The son of an Italian merchant. He accompanied his father and his uncle on a trip to China. He was the first European to travel the length of Asia.
Marco Polo
The worlds oldest city, founded by Pedro Menendez
The nations that claimed to be Christian were called this.
Christendom
Crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco de Balboa
The French concentrated their explorations on these two rivers (pg. 13)
St. Lawrence and Mississippi
This man was the ruler of China during the 1200's.
Kublai Khan
Served as the capital of the Spanish colonies in the American Southwest.
Santa Fe
The increase in trade led to the rise of this
The Middle Class
A Portuguese sailor working for Spain, began a a three year voyage around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
the Father of New France
Samuel de Champlain
The inventor of the printing press.
Johann Gutenberg
The first European settlement in the present day California
San Diego
The "rebirth" of learning
The Renaissance
Conquered the Aztecs of Mexico.
Hernando Cortes
The French settlement of Quebec was located on this river
St. Lawrence
This voyager from Portugal founded a navigation school and sent out several ships to explore the western coast of Africa.
Prince Henry the Navigator
A supposed water route through North America to the Pacific
Northwest Passage
Probably the most important invention during the Renaissance
the movable-type printing press
Led the Aztecs, developed an advanced civilization that included a calendar, pictographic writing and architecture.
Montezuma II
A Jesuit missionary and a fur trader who led an expedition to explore the Mississippi River
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet
This monk protested false doctrines of the church by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Germany.
Martin Luther
When the French claimed Canada, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley they called it this
New France
This movement began in 1517 and started with the bold acts of Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
Conquered the Inca of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
These two islands were used as a base by Balboa and Cortes
Cuba and Hispaniola
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue. He was one of few people to believe the earth was round.
Christopher Columbus
England
The name of the Spanish military
Conquistadors
Marched northward from Mexico searching for treasures.
Francisco Coronado
Sailed down the Illinois River to the Mississippi River and went to the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert Cavelier de La Salle
Sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage.
Ferdinand and Isabella
This Louisiana city, founded in 1718 is the best known city of French heritage in the United States
New Orleans
An undertaking by the Catholic church to bring people back into the Catholic-fold
Counter-Reformation
Explored parts of the present-day states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee
Hernando de Soto
This explorer sailed the farthest south
Balboa
Indigenous people
Indian
In 1608 the first permanent French settlement in the New World was established in this country
Canada (Quebec)
French Protestants who established Charlesfort on the coast of South Carolina and Fort Caroline on the coast of Florida
Huguenots
A Portuguese explorer employed by the Spanish, explored the coast of California and Oregon.
Juan Cabrillo
This voyager explored the Atlantic coast of North America for the French
Champlain
Recognized that Columbus had explored a new continent. Our country was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
Columbus explored these two West Indies islands, known in present day as Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Cuba and Hispaniola
The name of the Indigenous tribe (Indians) that met Columbus
Arawak
Attacked Spanish ships bound for Spain from the New World.
Sir Frances Drake
This voyager explored the Atlantic coast of North America for the Spanish
Ponce de Leon