Exploring
Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?
Who is Marco Polo?
Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?
Prince Henry the Navigator
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
Which trade got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France?
Fur Trade
What was the Middle Passage?
the journey of enslaved Africans from the market to the plantations where they worked.
Where did Vasco Da Gama Explore?
The eastern coast of Africa
Although Pedro Alvares Cabras set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?
Brazil
What was the first English colony in North America?
Roanoke Island
Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?
Canada around Montreal
Which explorer did not visit North America?
Ferdinand Magellan
What important route did Dias's discovery lead to?
A route to the Indian Ocean
Why did Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians"?
He thought he had reached the East Indies.
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown, Virginia
Who were the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River?
Marquette and Jolliet
What body of water did Casco Nunez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro?
the Pacific Ocean
What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?
Astrolabe and magnetic compass
Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?
The Bahamas
Who was the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of Indians?
Las Casas
What did Henry Hudson accomplish?
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States?
Giovanni da Verrazano
What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?
Cape of Good Hope
What name was given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?
Encomiendas
Where are the Straits of Magellan?
Near the southern tip of South America
Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened?
The Netherlands