Explorers
An Irish monk said to be the first to see North America
St. Brendan
Goods traded from New World to old World through this network across the Atlantic
Columbian Exchange
First colony that everyone disappeared
CROATOAN
Roanoke
Started a fur trapping trade with natives in what is today Canada later taken by guess who the British
France
Travelled across many mile and the land bridge to follow food or in this case animal meat
Nomads
Italian Sailor funded by Spain to find a direct maritime route to Asia
Christopher Columbus
Idea that trade generates wealth
Mercantilism
Probably the most profitable colony in Virginia
Jamestown
First settled in New Amsterdam
Dutch
These people figured out how to farm crops and no longer roamed the earth but built their homes on the land. Many were killed or taken from their lands
Native Americans
Came from Greenland and found Vinland
Leif Ericson
First major cash crop grown in Virginia
Tobacco
Pilgrims and Puritans settled in this area
Massachusetts
Claimed most of the eastern coastline of the New World
England
Animals with big tusks and lots of hair. Can you imagine how the first one was killed. Could have been self defense
Mammoths
He, Unofficially worked for the queen of England to raid Spanish ships
Sir Francis Drake
This food was grown by Native Americans and tasted AMAZING!!!!
Maize
William Penn took his Quakers and formed this state
Pennsylvania
First European country to fund and send explorers
Spain
Were taken by force first by Portuguese merchants that was considered the middle part of the Triangular trade route
African slaves
He was the first to see the Pacific through what is now Panama.
Vasco Nunez De Balboa
Caused a land bridge
Ice Age
Lord Baltimore founded this colonial state
Maryland
First to start the slave trade
Portugal
Nomads crossed this land bridge to get to the other side. Today is a mighty sea in the northern part of the world
Beringia