Explorers
This explorer thought he was sailing to Asia and landed in the West Indies.
Columbus
Spanish soldiers brought horses on their ship. What effect did this have when they came to America?
They could cover more land on horseback
Why did many Indigenous people die after the arrival of Europeans?
Smallpox and other diseases that they didn't have immunity to.
Brazil was explored by which country?
Portugal
Fransico Vasquez de Coronado sailed for Spain and explored this North American region
Southwest
What two navigational tools increased the ability of explorers to travel across the sea?
Better Maps, Telescopes to calculate the height of the tides, Kites to measure distance, Astrolabes that made measurements using the stars
Better Maps and Astrolabes
How did Indigenous people help the English and Dutch with their settlements?
taught them to farm
What ocean did Christopher Columbus cross?
Atlantic
Sailed for England and claimed Newfoundland in Canada.
John Cabot
What country built the first missions in North America?
France, Spain, Portugal, England
Spain
the explorer who left England and landed in Eastern Canada.
Magellan, Cabot, Columbus, Hudson
John Cabot
Conquistadors who came to the Americas wanted to
conquer a large empire for Spain
Was a Dutch explorer that explored New York and the surrounding area. A river was named after him.
Henry Hudson
Why did the French want to explore North America?
Fur trade- trading posts
Who was sponsored to explore and claim land in the Americas for Spain?
Christopher Columbus ,Francisco Coronado
Ferdinand Magellan, Robert LaSalle
Francisco Coronado
The Dutch paid for this English man to explore and claim waterways in North America?
Henry Hudson
Samual de Champlin sailed for France. What land in North America did he claim for France.
Quebec- Canada
True or False- Explorers claimed land for individual ownership and not for a country
False
What was the Age of Exploration?
Began in the 1400s when European Explorers were looking for quicker routes to Asia but found the Americas instead
Early explorations along the coast of West Africa were led by
Portugal