In 1492 this Italian sailor along with 3 of his ships sailed in search of a faster route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
100
An Italian explorer who found America
Amerigo Vespucci
100
A large fleet of ships went to invade England and resore Catholicism.
Spanish Armada
100
An economic system that increased money in a country's treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism
100
a person sent by the Church to convert Native American to Christianity.
Missionary
200
in the 1400's he had his own school of navigation and developed his own ship called the caravel.
Henry the Navigator
200
A Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa naming it the Cape of Good Hope.
Bartolomeu Dias
200
The founder of fur-trading post at Quebec.
Samuel de Champlain
200
A device invented by the Ancient Greeks that helped sailors find their latitude.
astrolabe
200
Spanish ships that brought gold and silver from America.
galleons
300
He found the water route to Asia
Vasco da Gama
300
An explorer from Portugal who led a voyage in 1519 took 5 ships and 270 men and reached the Philippines where he was killed in battle.
Ferdinand Magellan
300
A French sailor who sailed up the st. lawrence River to present-day Montreal.
Jacques Cartier
300
A Spanish soldier that explored the Americans and claimed land for Spain.
Conquistador
300
an imaginary line drawn around the world by Pop Alexander VI to decide who would control lands that sailors were exploring.
Line of Demarcation
400
in 1531 he led 180 men into Peru to conquer the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
400
An explorer from Spain who led a voyage in 1513 to the pacific and named all the lands he found for Spain.
Vasco de Balboa
400
An Italian sailor who sailed for the English and is believed to have landed in Newfoundland, Canada
John Cabot
400
A ship developed by the Portuguese that had triangular and square sails designed to help it sail into the wind and designed by Henry the Navigator.
Caravel
400
Movement of people, plants, animals and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
500
He landed on the Mexican coast in 1519 and took over the Aztec Empire with 508 conquistadors.
Hernando Cortes
500
Give 3 reasons why the Europeans explored the New World.
God, Glory and Gold
500
English Explorer who sailed for the Dutch and landed at the cost of present day New York.
Henry Hudson
500
Who was the priest that stood up for Native American rights?
Bartolome de Las Casas
500
The capture of Africans by the Spanish and Portuguese to be used as slaves.Brought to America and traded for money and goods to be brought back to Europe.