EXPLORERS
PLACES
NATIVE AMERICANS
THE VOYAGES
MAP SKILLS
100
He wrote a book about his travels to China that got others interested in exploring.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
Amerigo Vespucci has something to do with the name of this place.
What is America?
100
The Plains Indians followed this animal for its fur and meat.
What is the buffalo?
100
Claiming new land, making new maps, finding new trade routes, discovering riches...
What are benefits of exploring?
100
North, South, East, and West on a compass rose
What are cardinal directions?
200
He died along the way, but his sailors were the first to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
This country supported Columbus on his first voyage.
What is Spain?
200
The "early people" crossed this natural feature from Asia into North America.
What is the land bridge?
200
Columbus thought he reached this area when he landed on a Caribbean island.
What are the West Indies?
200
Europe, Asia, & Africa
What are the three continents on an old-world map before exploration?
300
This English explorer landed in a northern area we now call Newfoundland, Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
300
A waterway that cut all the way through North America, to make it easier to trade between Asia and Europe
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
Native Americans used these: trees, fish, rocks, animals, rivers, oceans...
What are natural resources?
300
Experiencing storms and hunger, spending a lot of money, returning with no discoveries...
What are costs of exploring?
300
NW, NE, SE, and SW on a compass rose
What are intermediate directions?
400
Spanish explorer who reached Pacific Ocean through Panama.
Who is Balboa?
400
Hernando de Soto became one of the first Europeans to see this waterway.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
These explorers, who sailed 500 years before Columbus, got into conflicts with the Native Americans, and left.
What are the Vikings?
400
Many voyages began in this time of "re-birth" - a time of new ideas in science, art, and learning.
What is the Renaissance?
400
0 degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
500
He claimed land around present-day New York for England and Holland.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
Ponce de Leon claimed this peninsula-shaped land for Spain.
What is Florida?
500
This cultural group lived in longhouses built from trees around the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Eastern Woodlands group?
500
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
What are the names of Columbus's three ships in his first voyage?
500
36 Caldwell Place Springfield, NJ is an example of this.
What is exact location?
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