He died believing that he had found a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
This was the name map makers gave the newly discovered continents of the New World.
What is America
100
The country that funded Christopher Columbus' voyages.
What is Spain?
100
He enslaved the Indians when he first landed in the new World because he believed them to be inferior.
Who is Columbus?
100
The English explored this area of the New World.
What is Virginia and Carolina?
200
He was the first explorer that realized the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus, were in fact new continents and not a part of Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
This is an agreement between two groups that is beneficial to each group.
What is an Alliance?
200
The movement that created a split from the Catholic Church during the mid 1500s.
What is the Reformation?
200
Europeans brought this over, which ended up killing thousands of Indians.
What is disease?
200
La Salle explored all over Canada and the Mississippi River Valley. He claimed the land for King Louis XIV and called it _____.
What is Louisiana?
300
In 1519, determined to find a passage to Asia, this explorer nearly sailed around the world dying in the Philippians, but his crew did.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
The was the sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that explorers were searching for.
What is the NorthWest Passage?
300
The two countries were constantly at war with each other during the 1500s and 1600s over colonies, broken marriages, and the drive to be the most powerful country in Europe.
What is England and Spain?
300
This was a result of the Indian population declining and the Spanish's desire for free labor.
What is the Slave Trade?
300
They would attack sailing ships and merchant ships.
Who are pirates?
400
Colonies existed to make the home country powerful.
What is merchantilism?
400
The king broke from the Catholic church so he could remarry and in doing so, took all of the church's land and money and added it to his fortune, making his country extremely wealthy.
Who is King Henry VIII?
400
The two nations were extremely friendly with the Indians and created alliances.
Who are the French and the Dutch?
400
Sailors feared many things. Name two.
What is starvation, getting lost at sea, sea monsters, storms, and pirates.
500
He was the first European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean after traveling through Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
Government control of a new territory.
What is a province?
500
This country was the first to push for exploration by developing a sailing and navigation school.
What is Portugal?
500
After the fur trade declined, the colonists decided this was more valuable to take from the Indians.