Important People
The person who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
Chinese invention that allowed sailors to know which direction to sail.
Compass
Made an agreement with the Iroquois and Hurons, established fur trading, and was hindered by cold weather.
New France
Decided to become a monk and wrote about the treatment of the American Indians.
Bartolome de Las Casas
Gives a ship power.
square sails
Governed by Peter Stuyvesant and named its capital city New Amsterdam.
New Netherlands.
Eventually declared that American Indians are humans with souls.
the pope
Helped sailors determine where they were on the ocean.
Quadrant
All of the colonists disappeared.
Roanoke
Wanted to be the first to sail from Europe to India.
Vasco de Gama
The type of sail that allowed sailors to sail in directions different from the wind.
Triangle sails
Wanted New Amsterdam to be a godly colony
Peter Stuyvesant
Explored the coast of Africa for Portugal.
Bartolomeu Dias
Sail at an angle to the wind.
Tacking
Had Roman Catholic Missionaries.
New France