Vocab
A tool used to determine latitude while at sea and uses the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Sailed into a large bay in the New York area and was thrown overboard?
Who is Henry Hudson?
What do you call a journey with a purpose?
What is an expedition?
An explorer that founded the Mississippi River while expanding his trade. He claimed a lot of land for the French during his expedition.
Who is Robert LaSalle?
Christopher Columbus sailed for what country?
What is Spain?
Who founded the state of Florida?
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
What company hired Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage?
What is the Dutch East India Company?
An area of land and people that is run by one individual is called what?
What is an empire?
This is the land that Eric the Red explored.
What is Greenland?
Name the explorer that founded the St. Lawrence River.
Who Jacques Cartier?
Christopher Columbus thought that he had found the West Indies, so he called the people the Indians. They were really known as what tribe?
Who are the Tainos?
The four major nations that were involved in early exploration.
What Portugal, Spain, English, and French.
A water route that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This sailor founded the same area as Leif Ericsson and called the island, New Foundland. He also disappreared during his final expedition. No one knows if he died in a shipwreck or on land, but he was never seen again.
Who is John Cabot?
The large landform that made Francisco Vasquez de Coranado famous, even though he didn't find gold.
What is the Grand Canyon?
These people believed that Hernan Cortez was a god.
Who are the Aztecs?
Name two explorers that were disgraced because they didn't return with riches like they said they would.
Who are Christopher Columbus and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?