Exploration
The Norseman who led Viking exploration of North America around AD 100 and named new land Vinland.
Who is Leif Erickson?
Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Aztec civilization.
Who is Hernando Cortés?
The French explorer who established Quebec
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The flow of new goods between Europe and the Americas
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Native American known for cliff dwellings.
Who are the Natives of the Southwest?
English sea captain who raided Spanish outposts and plundered Spanish ships.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The Spanish explorer who traveled up the east coast of Florida, claiming it for Spain
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Brought discipline to Jamestown and made requirements for coloinist to work.
Who is Captain John Smith?
Theory for how pre-Columbian Native Americans came to the Americas
What is a land bridge?
What is sailing across the ocean?
Technological advances of the Renaissance which made exploration possible
What are the compass, the astrolabe, and the caravel?
The Spanish explorer of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas who also discovered the Grand Canyon
Who is Francisco de Coronado?
The French explorer who journeyed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
The oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in the United States.
What is St. Augstine in Florida?
Featured pyramids, advnaced mathematics, and practiced human sacrifice.
Who are the Natives of Central and South America?
The rebirth of interest in the learning of classical Greece and Rome during the 1400s and 1500s
What is the Renaissance?
The Spanish explorer who the first european to discover the Mississippi River
Who is Hernando de Soto?
Companies raised money to fund colonies by selling stocks to investors.
America’s first self-governing assembly.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Mississippian Indians of the Eastern Woodlands and Southeast.
Who are mound builders?
Closer by Muslims forced Eurpoeans to find alternative routes to Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
Pope Alexander VI created separation of Portuguese and Spanish claims in the Americas.
What is the line of demarcation?
Reson for difficulty for the French to attract settlers to New France.
What is harsh climate?
What is dependence of mother country?
Sea voyage that brought slaves to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
Religious idea which all things, living or nonliving, have souls.
What is animism?