England
This cash crop made the English colony at Jamestown financially successful.
Tobacco
Name the three goals of the Spanish in the New World
To gain wealth, fame and to spread Catholicism through conversions
This French explorer made it to what is now the St. Lawrence River, and what would become New France in the Western Hemisphere
Jacques Cartier
This Spanish explorer sought a fictional 'fountain of youth' in Florida, but was never successful
Ponce de Leon
What country were considered by Columbus to pay for his voyage to the "New World"
Spain
King James I - Queen Elizabeth’s successor comissioned the London Company to at Chesapeake Bay. Settlers created a new colony called
Jamestown
Subjugated and killed indians from Florida up through Georgia and Alabama. His real great discovery came in 1541, when he and his mean arrived at the Mississippi River and acrossed its mighty river. On his journey he died.
Hernanado De Soto
This explorer established Quebec City in 1608.
Samuel De Champlain
Searching for cities of gold in the Southwest, this Spanish explorer visited the Grand Canyon, the Rio Grande in Texas and went as far into North America as to reach modern-day Kansas. Never found gold, and killed alot of Indians along the way.
Francisco de Coronado
Italy
This island was a failed English colony off the coast of North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Where did Columbus sail to?
Bahamas and Caribbean
These two explorers sailed the Mississippi River in 1673
Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
Players: Europe & Far east (The Indies)
Broker: Muslims Muslims controlled the land trade routes which meant increased cost of spices for europeans. Far east was considered a big source of silver and gold.
Reaching this region/continent was the goal of Christopher Columbus
Asia/Indies
This explorer followed Sir Francis Drake in exploring what would become the middle part of the eastern North American & Atlantic Ocean, on behalf of England and named the colony of "Virginia" on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. However, he had to stay by the king's side. He sent people to explore the New World.
Walter Raleigh
At Roanoke, colonists disappeared what did they find?
The word Croatian
Trading, hunting for furred animals, fishing, lumber jacking with this group, led to France generating its wealth in the New World
Native Americans/Indians
This explorer, wrote a letter read by most of Europe, though not first to reach the Western Hemisphere named the 'New World' after himself in his letter, and people started calling the New World, the "Americas" and it stuck.
Amerigo Vespucci
This city was meant to be the "New Paris" of the New World, though it didn't have that name, it ended up being a major French city in a New France. City still exist today in U.S.A
New Orleans (Louisiana)
Who came to Jamestown bringing a seed from the West Indies that become the cash crop to help them survive?
John Rolfe
Three main countries involved in Exploration?
Spain, France,England
This explorer established the city of La Nouvelle Orleans.
Robert Cavelier
This Englishman, and close friend of Elizabeth I, circumnavigated the entire world, leading to some claims of territory for the English queen
Sir Francis Drake
Who brokered the Spice Trade between Monarchs and Indies?
Muslims
This monarch decided to turn to the seas.Expanding England’s merchant fleet
Who was responsible for England's start of Exploration?
Queen Elizabeth I
He laid waste to the Aztec Empire across Mexico
Hernan Cortes
French explored from the Mississippi River in the midwest up to the St. Lawerence River and Canada. What did they call this territory?
New France
What is Speculators?
someone who invests money in something ( such as business, a mine, or a scheme), hoping it will make more money.
This explorer lead waste to the great Inca empire in Peru.
Francisco Pizarro