Spain
France
England
Christopher Columbus
Hodge Podge
100
Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas.
Who are the conquistadors?
100
The French discovered this was almost as valuable as Spanish gold.
What is beaver fur.
100
The first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
100
They sponsored Columbus's voyage to search for a sea route to Asia.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
The rebirth of European interest in the arts and learning of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is the Renaissance?
200
A village of apartment-like buildings made of stone or adobe.
What is a pueblo.
200
A base for French explorers, soldiers, missionaries, traders, and fur trappers.
What is Quebec?
200
Chief Powhatan's favorite daughter. She protected John Smith, married John Rolfe, and helped save Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
200
The peaceful Native American group that Columbus encountered.
Who are the Taino?
200
The path through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
He conquered the Aztecs of Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
Two Frenchmen who explored the great Mississippi River. They discovered the river flowed south, toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
300
He motivated the Jamestown settlers by saying "If any would not work, neither should he eat."
Who is John Smith?
300
The European term for North and South America.
What is the New World?
300
The treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do labor.
What is slavery?
400
Juan Ponce de Leon claimed this land for Spain.
What is Florida?
400
The first settlement in New France was founded by this man.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400
The cash crop that made the settlers of Jamestown money.
What is tobacco?
400
the transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian exchange?
400
the invention of this allowed more people access to Marco Polo's book.
What is the printing press?
500
While looking for these, Coronado only found a Native American pueblo
What are the Seven cities of Cibola or Seven cities of gold.
500
The Native American group that Champlain fought against. Ater their first battle, the two groups would remain bitter enemies.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
A group of merchants who started a money-making colony in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is the London Company?
500
The direction Columbus chose to sail to search for a sea route to Asia.
What is west?
500
Europeans tried to convert Native Americans to this religion.
What is Christianity or Catholicism?
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