France
This French explorer explored the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This explorer sailed for Spain in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This European country was one of the major nations involved in early overseas exploration.
What is Portugal?
This explorer sailed for England and explored the northeastern coast of North America.
Who is John Cabot?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What group of Europeans was first to sail to North America?
Who were the Vikings?
This Spanish explorer explored Florida and is associated with the search for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
He sailed past Africa all the way to India, creating a direct sea route for the spice trade.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Cabot searched for this mythical western sea route to Asia, which he hoped to find by sailing north of Columbus's route.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Because disease wiped out so many Native American laborers, Europeans turned to this horrific system to supply workers for sugar and tobacco plantations.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Mapping the New World In 1535, Jacques Cartier sailed up this major Canadian river, paving the way for future French colonization.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Portugal's explorers often traveled along this continent's coast while searching for routes to Asia.
What is Africa?
While searching for a shortcut to Asia, this captain mapped a massive river in modern-day New York and a giant frozen bay in Canada, both of which are named after him.
Who was Henry Hudson
Potatoes, corn, and tomatoes were examples of foods that Europeans encountered in this part of the world.
What are the Americas?
Cartier's exploration helped France begin claiming territory in this part of the world.
What is North America?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
He sailed for Spain, but this Portuguese explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate (sail around) the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Megallan?
For over a century, English explorers searched in vain for this elusive, frozen water route through North America to reach the rich spice markets of Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Horses, cattle, and other animals were brought to the Americas by these people.
Who are Europeans?
What was the primary economic goal of Cartier's voyages for King Francis I?
What is to find a western sea route to Asia (the Northwest Passage) and find gold/riches.
This Spanish explorer searched for the Seven Cities of Gold and explored parts of what is now the southwestern United States.
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
In 1488, this explorer became the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, naming it the Cape of Storms.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias
Why were England, France, Spain, and Portugal competing to explore new lands and routes?
What are wealth, trade, land, power, and spreading Christianity?
What was one major harmful effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native American populations?
What is the spread of European diseases?