Early Explorers
in the Americas
Colonization
Global Issues
Miscellaneous
100
The earliest recorded European explorer to travel through Asia
Who is 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
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
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
The African King who had many mosques built in Timbuktu
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
New form of ship that carried heavier cargo and sailed longer distances
What is the caravel?
300
Portuguese explorer who rounded 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
The name given to the West Coast of Africa by European explorers
What is the Gold Coast?
300
The inventors of the triangular sail
Who are the Arabs?
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
The African empire brought to power by Akiya Muhammad in the 1400s
What is Songhai?
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 instrument that measured the position of the stars
What is the astrolabe?
500
The group of people that came to the Americas 500 years before Columbus
Who are the Vikings?
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