Reasons for Exploration
Europeans wanted to find new trade routes to Asia and discover valuable goods like spices and gold.
What is a reason Europeans explored North America?
This Italian sailed for Spain in 1492 and is often credited with opening contact between Europe and the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This Spanish explorer traveled through southeastern North America and is known for searching for gold and crossing rivers.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
Some Europeans traded tools, cloth, and metal goods with American Indian groups.
What is cooperation (or trade)?
In cold northern regions, explorers who adapted by wearing warmer clothing and using local food survived better.
What is adapting to climate?
Some explorers searched for a shorter water route across North America to Asia; this hoped-for route had a special name.
What is the Northwest Passage?
He claimed the land around the Gulf of Panama for Spain after crossing the isthmus and seeing the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
One explorer’s voyages helped European countries learn more about the places they reached and start settlements, trade, and claims
Who are European explorers (or What is exploration leading to settlement and trade)?
When Europeans tried to take land or force changes, it often led to this kind of result between groups.
What is conflict?
Explorers who failed to bring enough fresh food or water and did not learn local food sources often faced this.
What is starvation or sickness?
A major obstacle to exploration was that sailors faced long trips with limited food, fresh water, and unknown weather.
What are hardships at sea?
Sailing for England, this explorer claimed land in North America around 1497 and is often associated with Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
This explorer’s claim to the Pacific coast led Spain to strengthen its interest in the Americas and later colonization.
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
Sometimes Europeans learned survival skills—such as farming methods and local foods—from American Indians.
What is cooperation or cultural exchange?
When explorers used local knowledge—like waterways and hunting techniques—they were more likely to do this and continue their travels.
What is succeed or survive?
Another obstacle was not knowing the lands they reached; maps were incomplete and could be dangerous.
What is poor or missing map information?
This French explorer made several trips up the St. Lawrence River and explored what is now eastern Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Was funded by four trips to discover the New World.
Who is Christopher Colombus?
Diseases brought by Europeans often caused large population losses for American Indian communities, which affected relationships.
What is the impact of disease?
Name one way explorers adapted to different physical environments (example answer acceptable: learning to use local food, building suitable shelter, or changing travel routes)
What is (example) learning to use local food / building different shelters / changing routes?
This big goal made many European countries send explorers to find new routes and lands so they could become richer and more powerful than other countries.
What is finding wealth and power (to gain riches, trade routes, and new lands)?
What accomplishemnts did Soto have.
What is explorerd areas of South America before leading an expedition in North America in what is now the Southeastern U.S., including present day FL,GA,AL,MS,AR
Name the similarties between Christopher Columbus and John Cabot
What is wanted to travel to Asia, both had obstacles of incomplete maps.
American Indians in the Candaian region gave this explorer what three things. Who was this explorer?
What is Silver, gold and spices? Who is Jacques Cartier?
This is when explorers learned from American Indians to grow new foods, use local plants, or change how they built shelters so they could stay alive in a new land.
What is learning local survival skills (or adapting with help from American Indians)?