Age of Exploration
Early European Explorers
Early French & English Settlements
Jamestown
Plymouth
100

What type of lightweight ship used triangular sails?

caravel

100

sailed around the southern tip of Africa

Bartolomeu Dias

100
One theory explaining the disappearance of those in the Roanoke colony was that the _?_ people killed the colonists.

Croatoan

100
Native American chief who eventually worked and traded with the colonists of Jamestown

Powhatan

100

The Separatists of Scrooby left England and traveled first to the _?_

Netherlands

200

What tool required sailors to use the stars to calculate their position?

astrolabe

200

sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India and back; the first European to sail all the way to India

Vasco de Gama

200

The first English colony in North America, funded by Sir Walter Raleigh was _?_.

Roanoke

200

Leader of Jamestown who tried to enforce the people of the colony to work

John Smith

200

Group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England and bring the church in line with the Bible's teaching

Puritans

300

To determine the latitude of a ship's location, a sailor held up a quadrant to what object in the sky?

the sun

300

discovered new land for Europe by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean

Christopher Columbus

300

Frenchman that discovered the St. Lawrence River

Jacques Cartier

300

Someone who agreed to work for a period of time to pay off a debt

indentured servant

300

Group of people who did not think the Church of England would not change so decided to start their own churches

Separatists

400

People during the Age of Exploration exercised dominion over the earth by using their God-given abilities to invent _?_.

new navigation tools

400

Explorers from which country were the first to find a sea route to the East?

Portugal

400

Unlike Spain and France, England wanted to spread which religion around the world?

Protestantism

400

The first permanent English settlement in North America founded on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia in 1607

Jamestown

400

The name of the ship that the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic on

Mayflower

500

The Vikings established the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in what is now called _?_.

Newfoundland

500

Explorers from Spain tried forcing the Taino people to convert to what religion?

Catholicism

500

Samuel de Champlain established the settlement of _?_ near the St. Lawrence River as a place to trade with the native peoples such as the Hurons and the Algonquins.

Quebec

500

The _?_ Company began a colony in the New World to gain land and wealth for its nation.

Virginia

500

Native American who spoke English and worked with the Pilgrims and taught them how to grow food and communicate with the Wampanoag tribe

Squanto (Tisquantum)

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