Explorers
A Spanish explorer who sought the 7 Cities of Gold in what is today the Southwest United States.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
Established trading posts with Native Americans and attempted to spread Christianity to them.
Who are the French?
The first of the 3 major West African trade empires.
The first "G" that represents European desire to spread Christianity.
What is God?
If you don't have these, you won't know where you're going (like many of our European explorers).
What are poor maps and navigation tools?
A French explorer who travelled the St. Lawrence River to settle Quebec Canada.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Who are the Spanish?
The second of the 3 major West African trade empires.
What is Mali?
The second "G" that represents European motivations to expand their wealth.
What is Gold?
The oldest and strongest fear of mankind, and a major obstacle for European explorers.
What is the fear of the unknown?
Another French Explorer who claimed the Mississippi River Valley and help found the city of New Orleans.
Established permanent settlements, learned farming techniques, and traded with the Native Americans.
Who are the English?
The third of the 3 major West African trade empires.
What is Songhai?
The third "G" that represents European desires to expand their empires while in direct competition with each other.
What is Glory?
Caught from malnutrition, drinking brackish water, or spread to Native Americans who had no resistance to them.
What are diseases?
An English explorer who went missing in 1498 searching for the Northwest Passage.
Who is John Cabot?
Traded metal, cloth, and manufactured goods with West African empires in exchange for gold.
Who are the Portuguese?
The mineral-for-metal trade that allowed West African empires to become rich and powerful.
What is the Salt/Gold Trade?
A shorter route to the Indies, thought to exist by going around North America.
Conflicts between European settlers and Native Americans over whose land is whose.
What are competitions over land usage?
A Portuguese explorer who made expeditions down to West Africa.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Responsible for bringing Christianity and European diseases to the "New" World before any other European power.
Who are the Spanish?
What is 300-1600AD?
The reason European powers wanted to reach the Indies by a shorter route.
What are Spices?
The most devastating disease brought to the Americas by the Europeans.
What is Smallpox?