Explorers
Who is the Spanish explorer who circumnavigated the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
What state was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I?
What is Virginia
Who was Geneva's most influential teacher, who taught that salvation was God's work and that sinners needed to simply trust in God?
Who had the most settlements in the new world? The French, Spanish or English?
Who was the English
What famous work was about the adventures of Marco Polo?
What is the Description of the World.
Who is the Italian explorer who sailed for Spain?
Christopher Columbus
What is the body of water which historians believe the ancestors of the American Indians enetered the Western Hemisphere after the flood in small boats or on foot over a bridge of ice?
What is the Berling Straight
Who was the English child born in America?
Who was Viriginia Dare
What was the economic system that based on building national power by amassing a surplus of gold and precious metals?
What is Mercantilism
Who the explorer who sailed to India and obtained a profitable cargo of spices?
Vasco da Gama
What is the oldest city permenant city, still present in the United States today, that was settled by the Europeans?
What is St. Augustine
Spain's Catholic king who was bent on crushing Protestantism, but was defeated when Sir Drake destroyed his Spanish Armada?
Who was Philip II
This group of Indians were probably the first Indians the European settlers encountered, they were highly civilized and politically skilled.
Who is the Eastern Woodland Indians
This European nation was the first to discover a sea route to Asia
What is Portugal
Who was Bartolomeu Dias
This colony became known as the "Lost Colony" after it's inhabitants disapeared?
What is Roanoke Island
The German monk who was influential in starting the Protestant Reformation by standing against the corruptions of the Roman Catholic Church?
Who was Martin Luther
Who was the one-legged governer of New Netherlands who took control in 1647 and sought to protect the colony from indian attacks?
Who was Peter Stuyvesant
Which country was Spain's earliest competitor to reach the far east and make early claims to new lands?
What is Portugal
Who was the Dutch explorer who claimed New Netherlands?
Henry Hudson
Where was the Protestant Reformation most influential?
What is England, Switzerland, Scandinavia and parts of Germany.
These people were merchants who for decades held a virtual monopoly on all reade in the region and controlled the overland routes to Asia?
Who is the Muslim people
Who are the Aztects
What innovation made it possible for explorers to extend their travels to the New World by enabling sailors to know which direction they were heading in ?
What is the Compass