Explorers
He sailed for both the Dutch and the English, founding a river and establishing New Netherlands and English settlements around this big Canadian bay also named for him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The Inuits lived in and continue to live in this region of North America.
What is the Arctic and Subarctic?
This device points navigators toward the magnetic north pole.
What is a compass?
Before 1492, several Native American cultures relied on cultivating this crop to feed their populations.
What is corn?
St. Augustine is the oldest European fort in the Americas and was built by Spain in this location.
What is Florida?
He and his crew established the Spanish presence in the Philippines, although he would not live to finish the circumnavigation of the world.
Who is Magellan?
Native Americans like the Sioux and Cheyenne migrated following the buffalo in this region.
What are the Great Plains?
The type of ship that the Portuguese and Spanish explorers used to travel efficiently and accurately.
The Incas developed this calorie-rich vegetable which enriched diets around the world, becoming especially famous in Ireland.
What is the potato?
The Spanish used this as a way to get labor from the Native Americans in exchange for protecting them and indoctrinating them in Catholicism.
What is the encomienda system?
Martin Waldseemuller used the name "America" for this explorer, who realized these were new lands not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Before Columbus, the highest concentration of Native Americans was found in this region, where the Aztecs had their empire.
What is Mexico/Central America?
Europeans brought this invention used to improve transportation because of its circular shape.
What is the wheel?
Sadly, Africans became part of the Columbian exchange, brought often to this location in the America to work on sugar plantations.
What is the Caribbean?
Sir Walter Raleigh established an unsuccessful colony at this site, which not only failed but all the inhabitants mysteriously were gone.
What is Roanoke?
Italian explorer who reached America in the 1490s while exploring for England.
Who is John Cabot?
The Pueblos built homes into the cliffs of this dry American region.
What is the Southwest?
What is iron/steel?
The introduction of these made a huge impact on the hunting practices of the Plains Indians.
What are horses?
This country had colonies in the center of North America as well as part of an island in the Caribbean and some territory in South America.
What is France?
He sailed in the St. Lawrence River in Canada establishing French presence in the region.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The Lenape Indians built a civilization in this American region.
What is the Northeast/Atlantic coast?
This tool helped navigators use the stars to accurately sail north and south of the equator.
What is the astrolabe?
While Native Americans suffered most from the transfer of diseases, Europeans contracted and transported this from Native Americans and introduced it to Europe.
What is syphillis?
Alaska and the Pacific Northwest had settlements established for this European power.
What is Russia?