English Exploration
Italian explorer who sailed for England.
Who was John Cabot?
The name given to the Adena and Hopewell cultures that developed in what is now the Midwest.
What are Mound-builders?
The first English child born in America.
Who was Virginia Dare?
The European nation who first discovered a sea route to Asia.
What is Portugal?
Italian explorer who sailed for Spain.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
English "Sea Dog" whom the Spanish viewed as a pirate...Arrrr matey!
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
It was the greatest factor in determining the type of housing used by the various Indian tribes.
What is the geography/environment?
The French called the region that is modern-day Canada.
What is New France?
The German monk who was influential in starting the Protestant Reformation.
Spanish explorer who named Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
Englishman who financed settlements in the New World.
Who was Walter Raleigh?
The King of the Aztecs who thought Cortes might be a god.
Who was Montezuma?
He wrote Description of the World.
Who is Marco Polo?
He explored for Spain's earliest competitor in an attempt to find a sea route to Asia; he discovered the "Cape of Good Hope."
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
Spanish explorer whose crew circumnavigated the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Its defeat opened the New World to English exploration and colonization without conflicting with other European countries.
What is the Spanish Armada?
Historians believe the Native Americans originally came to the "New World" by this land bridge.
What is the Bering Straight?
The economic system based on building national power by amassing a surplus of gold, silver, etc.
What is mercantilism?
This group of merchants controlled the overland routes to Asia creating a new to find a water route.
Who are the Muslims?
Spanish explorer whose expedition discovered the Grand Canyon.
Who was Francisco de Coronado?
It was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.
What is the colony of Virginia?
They built their capital city on the site of Modern Mexico City.
Who are the Aztecs?
The oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in the present-day United States.
What is St. Augustine?
Geneva's most influential teacher and was instrumental in the Protestant Reformation.
Who is John Calvin?
Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi.
Who was Hernando de Soto?