Famous explorer from the late-1200s who wrote a book that captivated the world, including Christopher Columbus 200 years later.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
The one trade item that most interested French explorers.
What are furs?
100
John White was shocked to find this mysterious message written on a doorpost when he returned from a supplies trip to England.
What is "CROATOAN"?
100
The treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do labor.
What is slavery?
100
This famous explorer landed in Haiti in October 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The ocean Columbus traversed (traveled across) during his voyage in 1492.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
One reason why New France failed to attract new settlers.
What is "bad weather" OR "having to rent land from French nobles."
200
This is known by historians as England's "lost colony"?
What is Roanoke?
200
Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru.
What are conquistadors?
200
An Italian-born explorer for Spain who believed the Earth was round when many others did not.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
In the 1300s and 1400s, this direction on the compass was considered the most dangerous direction to travel outward from Europe.
What is west?
300
He forged a crucial alliance, helping the Huron defeat the Iroquois.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300
This colony was settled in Virginia in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
300
A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.
What is a colony?
300
Spanish explorer who attacked the powerful Aztecs, and conquered Mexico with the help of Native Americans.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
400
The institution whose goal was to convert Native Americans to Catholicism, and increase Spanish control over the Spanish Borderlands. [HINT: TWO-WORD PHRASE!]
What are Catholic missions?
400
Samuel de Champlain's most long-lasting legacy, which still exists in Canada today.
What is Quebec?
400
Jamestown's winter of 1609-1610 was known as this.
What is "the starving time"?
400
The definition of "trappers."
What are adventurers who capture and kill animals, such as beavers, for their fur?
400
The oldest permanent settlement founded by Europeans in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
500
The Columbian Exchange involved the transfer of ________ back and forth across the ocean. [YOU MUST GET ***ALL FOUR*** PARTS OF THE BLANK!]
What are plants, animals, people, and diseases?
500
Jacques Cartier's lifetime goal as an explorer.
What is finding the Northwest Passage (an all-water route through North America, to the Pacific Ocean)?
500
The goal of Chief Powhatan and the governor of Jamestown in giving consent to a marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
What is the hope of ending the conflict between the English and Powhatan?
500
The definition of "missionaries."
Who are people who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion?
500
The biggest difference between Spanish exploration and French exploration, from the perspective of the Native Americans.
What is violence and slavery instead of fur trading and strategic alliance?