Explorers
Word of this explorer's voyage set in motion many future expeditions.
Columbus
What explorer crossed west over the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Mississippi?
De Soto
Which English explorer was known for raiding Spanish territories in the Caribbean?
Sir Francis Drake
Cortez conquered the Mayans, Pizarro conquered who?
Inca
What commodity brought explorers to Canada?
Fishing
Who influenced Pizarro to seek an empire of his own in the New World?
Cortez
What's the name of the city Cortez built in the place of Tenochtitlan?
Mexico City
Only one of Columbus's 3 ships returned to Spain, which was it?
Nina
What did Columbus call the native people of the Bahamas? Why?
Indians, he thought he had landed in the East Indies
Pizarro captured an Inca trading vessel off the Pacific coast. What was the vessel filled with?
Gold and Jewels
This explorer had relatively peaceful encounters with the Indigenous people.
Cartier
Cartier name a hill Mont Réal, what is that area known as today?
Montreal
This exploration was the first where a huge battle ensued to gain control of the New World. Who led this exploration?
Cortez
Emperor Montezuma sends what to the Spaniards in hopes to entice them to stay on the coast and not travel inland? Did it work?
Gold & Jewels, No
Many explorers were chasing gold, but gained this instead?
Knowledge
This Spanish explorer left a wake of war, murder, and terror in his wake as he crossed paths with the Indigenous people.
De Soto
By the late 1500's a well-traveled ocean "highway" tied together what locations?
Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas
When De Soto traveled from Florida to Mississippi, what did he find?
A lot of people, corn, and mound dwellings
Who did Columbus expect to find when he landed on the shores of what he thought were the West Indies?
Fierce Female Cannibal Warriors
What emperor was held prisoner and ransomed for gold?
Montezuma
What are 3 reasons behind the drive of exploration?
Fortune, land, and fame
What was the name of the first settlement in the New World?
Navidad
What caused the Age of Exploration to come to an end?
Most of the New World had been conquered and claimed.
What group of people did Cartier encounter along the St. Lawrence River?
Iroquois
Although part of Columbus's exploring party sought for gold, what did Columbus seek?