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Mesoamerican empire rainforest empire that built step pyramids and made a 365-day calendar
Mayans
What Spanish monarchs did Columbus persuade to finance his voyage west to reach the Indies?
Ferdinand and Isabella
Which explorer claimed the Atlantic coast of America for England?
John Cabot
What is the journey called that slaves took under horrible conditions?
Middle Passage
English settlement named for the King
Jamestown
Mesoamerican empire built on present day Mexico City
Aztec
French protestants
Huguenots
What Englishman sponsored two colonizing attempts to the Lost Colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Who survived a shipwreck and captivity in the early 1500's and may have been the first African in North America?
Estaban
The Indian girl who was kidnapped by the English, later married John Rolfe, traveled to England, and met James 1 was
Pocahontas
South American Mountainous empire conquered by Pizarro
Inca
Sea explorers who settled Greenland and visited Canada?
Vikings
What groups of Indians lived near Jamestown?
Powhatan
English pirates who raided Spanish treasure ships
sea dogs
Identify three hardships the early Jamestown settlers faced
food shortages, diseases, Indian attacks
Froze to death as a sacrifice to the gods
Ice Maiden
What was the key industry in French hands in the Americas?
Fur Trade or trapping
What man declared that any who would not work would not eat?
John Smith
The crop that became a profitable cash crop for the Jamestown settlers was
Name the primary reasons for the founding of the colonies
land, political freedom, personal riches, adventure, English domination, national wealth, and religious freedoms
Which mesoamerican group's name means "rubber people"
Olmec
Name three Spanish explorers
Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de soto, and Francisco Coronado
Invasion Fleet sent to destroy England
Spanish Armada
English colony named after the queen
Virginia
Identify two reasons the Spanish sent an invisible armada to conquer England in 1588
to stop English piracy of Spanish treasure and to restore catholicism