People
Pedro Alvares Cabral intended to set sail for India but he accidentally "discovered" this country instead.
What is Brazil?
This is the word that means a situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of a good or service.
What is a monopoly?
This is the word that means mapmaker.
What is a cartogropher?
This is what the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplished.
What is divide the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal?
This is the country who stepped in and took control of the spice trade after the weakening of Portugal.
What are the Netherlands? (Who were the Dutch?)
This explorer did not actually visit North America at all.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
We can attribute a very important route directly to this discovery by Dias' at the southern tip of South Africa.
What is a route to the Indian Ocean?
This is the word that means the practice of controlling and settling an area with people from another country.
What is colonization?
This is whre you can find the Straits of Magellan.
What is the southern tip of South America?
He was the Spanish explorer who became a missionary and tried to end the enslavement of Indians.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
These Europeans made it to the mighty Mississippi River.
*These explorers were not on your chart of explorers. Their mission was a tiny paragraph on page 72.
Who were Marquette and Joliette?
This is the word that mean to travel completely around something.
What is circumnavigate?
This is what we call the navigational instrument that used a telescope and scale to determine longitude and latitude.
What is a sextant?
This is where THE FIRST English colony in North America was founded.
These are two of the tools that early navigators used to know where they were and where they were going.
What are an astrolabe and magnetic compass?
This is the area explored by Vasco de Gama.
What is the eastern coast of Africa?
This is what the Middle Passage was.
What was the journey forced upon Africans stolen from Africa to the Americas?
This is the word that means native to a particular region or environment.
What is indiginous?
This important landmark was first reached by Bartolomeu Dias.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
This is who we consider the leader in Portuguese exploration in the 1400s.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
This is where Christopher Columbus landed on his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Bahamas?
This is why we still study Henry Hudson today.
What is that he sailed upriver into what is now New York State and also found a large inland sea in Canada?
This is the Spanish word that means the system of land and labor grants set up to encourage settlers in newly conquered lands.
What are encomiendas?
This was the first PERMANENT English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This is the word that means a group of ships sailing together with the same purpose and under the control of the same leader.
What is a fleet?