Spanish Exploration
The Italian explorer that first made landfall in the Western Hemisphere for Spain was?
Christopher Columbus
French explorers tried to find an all-water route to Asia through the Arctic. This was called what?
The Northwest Passage
The Netherlands had a powerful trading port in India called what?
The Dutch East India Company
What changed the moment that Indigenous Peoples first came into contact with the European explorers?
EVERYTHING!!!!!!
What is an instrument with a magnetic pointer that points north?
A Compass
A Spanish explorer and conqueror is known as what?
Pedro Alvares Cabral sailed west and claimed which future country as a colony of Portugal?
Brazil
Which English explorer explored the area from North Carolina down the east coast of Florida in 1587?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What does INDIGENOUS men?
To be native to the land.
European exploration by sea started as a desire to find faster trade routes to where?
Asia
Vasco Nunez De Balboa was the first European explorer to see which ocean?
The Pacific Ocean.
The first explorer to successfully sail to India by voyaging around southern Africa was who?
Vasco da Gama
Who claimed territory for the Dutch in the Americas that included the present-day states New Jersey, New York and Connecticut?
Henry Hudson
Spain and Portugal often used Natives as what?
Slaves
A territory that is controlled by a stronger country is known as a what?
A colony
Spain was the first country to claim that they had "discovered" the Western Hemisphere, and called it what?
The New World.
France acquired most of its wealth from the ______ trade?
The Fur Trade
Name at least 3 goods that the English shipped from the Americas back to England.
Potatoes, corn (maize), tobacco, cotton, peppers, avocados, beans, squash, sugar, peanuts.
In addition to the fighting and killing of Indigenous Peoples, what else led to many Natives dying?
Diseases
Europeans had goods shipped to and from the Americas in a transatlantic trade system called what?
The Columbian Exchange
Who conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
Thanks to Samuel de Champlain, the first successful French settlement was created in ________?
Quebec, Canada
Sir Walter Raleigh named the territory he claimed for England, _______, after his Queen.
Virginia
Europeans came to the Americas to conquer and trade with Indigenous Peoples, but also as missionaries to do what?
Convert them to Christians.
The difficult and deadly shipment of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean was know as what?
The Middle Passage