This man led and financed Portuguese exploration in the 1400s.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
100
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and discovered the Bahamas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This explorer followed in Magellan's footsteps, was a feared pirate, and defeated the Spanish Armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
100
This kind of trade got France interested in North America.
What is the fur trade?
100
This is where the Straits of Magellan are.
What is the Southern tip of South America?
200
Bartolomeu Dias discovered this.
What is the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern tip of Africa?
200
Magellan was the first explorer to this.
What is circumnavigate the world?
200
This "Lost Colony" was the first English settlement in North America.
What is Roanoke Island, North Carolina?
200
This was Jacques Cartier's big mistake as he sailed into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
What is that he didn't realize that the Gulf of St. Lawrence led to a big river?
200
Name the tools explorers used to help them navigate.
What are compass, hourglass, sextant, astrolabe, and knots?
300
Most of Vasco da Gama's men died of this disease.
What is scurvy?
300
The terms "Indian" came from this explorer thinking he was here.
What is Columbus thought he was in the Spice Islands (Indies).
300
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300
Giovanni Verrazano was the first person to sail up this.
What is the Atlantic Coast of North America?
300
This Venetian explorer's travels to Asia inspired the start of the Age of Exploration.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Pedro Alvares Cabral thought this was a giant island on his way to India.
What is Brazil?
400
Magellan visited these countries and named this "peaceful" ocean.
What are Argentina, Chile, Guam, Philippines, and the Pacific Ocean?
400
This explorer sailed up a river in New York and found a huge inland sea in Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
The Dutch East India Company was this kind of company that "stocked" up on spices.
What is a joint-stock company?
400
These are land and labor grants given to Spanish settlers in North America.
What are encomiendas?
500
This document gave the Pope power to draw an imaginary line that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
This Spanish missionary fought to help protect the native peoples of North America.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
500
The names of either Drake's or Hudson's ship.
What are the Golden Hind, the Half Moon, or the Discovery?
500
Marquette and Jolliet were French explorers who were the first to reach this.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
This was the second part of three trips in the Atlantic slave trade. Many found this part inhumane, disgusting, and brutal as Africans were transported from Africa to the Americas.