Early Explorers
in the Americas
Colonization
Vikings
Miscellaneous
100

The earliest recorded European explorer to travel through Asia and brought back spices and silk.

Who was Marco Polo?

100
Name for the Dutch colony in the Americas
What is New Netherlands?
100
The Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Aztec empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
100
Viking that was exiled because he killed his neighbor in a land dispute who colonized Greenland
Who was Eric "The Red"
100
Three reasons for European exploration
What are to spread religion, to become famous, and to find new trade routes?
200
Led a school of Portuguese sailors exploring the coast of Africa
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
Explored the New England coastline for England
Who is John Cabot?
200
French explorer who discovered Lake Champlain
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
200

This Viking left Greenland to sail back to Iceland but was blown off course and landed in Labrador

Who was Leif Ericksson

200
New form of ship that carried heavier cargo and sailed longer distances
What is the caravel?
300

Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa

Who is Bartholmew Dias?

300
Queen of Spain who financed Christopher Columbus
Who is Queen Isabella?
300
The theory that a nation's power is based on its wealth.
What is mercantilism?
300

Vikings used these vessels to travel long distances to conquer other people

What were longboats?

300

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth.


Who was Ferdinand Magellan? 
400

Portuguese explorer who became the first to sail for India and return with spices

Who is Vasco de Gama?

400
Treaty that divided the Atlantic world between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
The three types of Spanish settlements
What are pueblos, missions, and presidios?
400

Leif Ericksson's group established this settlement, but it didn't survive long. 

What was Vinland?

400
The French word meaning "rebirth"
What is Renaissance?
500
Italian explorer who named America
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
The explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River
Who is Jacques Cartier?
500
The term for the exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500

The European countries of origin for the Vikings 

What are Denmark, Norway, and Sweden?  (Scandinavia)

500
The group of people that came to the Americas 500 years before Columbus
Who are the Vikings?
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