age of exploration
age of exploration
age of exploration
age of exploration
age of exploration
1000

Explorer did not visit North America

Who was Ferdinand Magellan

1000

Claimed canada for france

Who was Jacques Cartier

1000

First English colony in North America

What is Roanoke Island

1000

Provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s

Who was prince Henry the navigator

1000

Believed he was the first European to reach the Indies.

Who was Christopher Columbus?




2000

The explorer that discovered a route to the Indian Ocean

Who was Bartolomeu Dias

2000

Reached the Pacific with Francisco Pizarro

Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa

2000
System of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands

What are Encomiendas

2000

Venetian explorers accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration

Who is Marco Polo

2000

He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.

who was Henry Hudson 

3000

He explored the eastern coast of Africa

Who was Vasco da Gama

3000

Trade that got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France

What is fur trade

3000

Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of the Indians

Who is Las Casas

3000

Called the people he encountered Indians

He thought he had reached the East Indies




Who was Christopher Columbus

3000

the journey enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas

what was the middle passage

4000

Divided the land from the North Pole and South Pole between Spain and Portugal

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas

4000

first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River

who was Marquette and Jolliet

4000

The first permanent English settlement in North America

What is Jamestown, Virginia

4000

The landmark that Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to reach

What is the Cape of Good Hope

5000

Set sail for India but accidentally ended up reaching Brazil first

Who was Pedro Cabral

5000

The first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present day United States

Who was Giovanni de Verrazano

5000

Near the southern tip of South America 

Where are the Straits of Magellan

5000

Navigators used these to know where they were and where they were going

What is an astroble and magnetic compass

5000

the Netherlands took this trade over from Portugal

what was the spice trade