Who did France send to find a Northwest passage to Asia. He ended up mapping much of the Eastern coast of North America.
Who was Giovanni da Varrazano?
Direction that many European explorers sailed to find attempt to find a new route to Asia.
What is West
What area did Columbus land?
What is the Caribbean?
Who led an expedition that circumnavigated the earth?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Who explored Newfoundland and Nova Scotia from England?
Who is John Cabot
This European country established settlements, learned farming techniques, and traded with the Native Americans.
Who are the English.
What native group did Columbus take back to Spain?
Who are the Taino?
He explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed much of eastern Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This country learned the value of establishing trading posts and trading furs with the Native American.
Who is France?
What country sponsored Columbus' journeys?
What is Spain?
Name three motivations of European exploration.
Gold, trade, natural resources, to spread Christianity, power, belief in culture
Who conquered much of the Aztec Empire?
Who was Hernan Cortez?
He recorded and drawn latitude and longitude of over 8,000 locations.
Who is Ptolemy?
This European explorer was looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
What were Columbus' ships names?
What are Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Crops were traded for metals and tools
Who was the first explorer that sailed to the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) and found a route to Asia?
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
This map represents a route that was very challenging to find for European explorers.
What is the Northwest Passage.
Of our four explorers were learned about, this one was first into North America.
Who was John Cabot.
Who did Columbus bring with him on his second journey to conquer the the Taino people?
What are conquistadors?
What kind of sails improved sailing and where did the Europeans get this technology?
What are triangular sails from Arab traders?
Leader of West African empire of Mail.
Who is Mansa Musa