age of exploration
Explorer did not visit North America
Who was Ferdinand Magellan
Claimed canada for france
Who was Jacques Cartier
First English colony in North America
What is Roanoke Island
Provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s
Who was prince Henry the navigator
Believed he was the first European to reach the Indies.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The explorer that discovered a route to the Indian Ocean
Who was Bartolomeu Dias
Reached the Pacific with Francisco Pizarro
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa
What are Encomiendas
Venetian explorers accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration
Who is Marco Polo
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
who was Henry Hudson
He explored the eastern coast of Africa
Who was Vasco da Gama
Trade that got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France
What is fur trade
Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of the Indians
Who is Las Casas
Called the people he encountered Indians
He thought he had reached the East Indies
Who was Christopher Columbus
the journey enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
what was the middle passage
Divided the land from the North Pole and South Pole between Spain and Portugal
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas
first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River
who was Marquette and Jolliet
The first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown, Virginia
The landmark that Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to reach
What is the Cape of Good Hope
Set sail for India but accidentally ended up reaching Brazil first
Who was Pedro Cabral
The first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present day United States
Who was Giovanni de Verrazano
Near the southern tip of South America
Where are the Straits of Magellan
Navigators used these to know where they were and where they were going
What is an astroble and magnetic compass
the Netherlands took this trade over from Portugal
what was the spice trade