First People
They were the first Europeans to reach America, landing in what is now Newfoundland, Canada.
The Vikings
These were military leaders who led expeditions to America.
Conquistadors
This Spanish explorer went to Florida to try and find the Fountain of Youth
Ponce de Leon
This event in Europe led to multiple denominations of Christianity splitting from the Catholic Church
The Protestant Reformation
This was the main priority for French explorers in how they interacted with Native Americans
Trading
The vikings left America because of one of these two things:
1. Attacks from Native Americans
2. Too far from other Viking settlements
This native american empire held gold and silver that the Spanish desparately wanted
The Aztecs
This Portugese explorer sailed around South Africa to reach India
Vasco da Gama
This doctrine said that whoever discovered land owned it, which stripped Native Americans of their rights
The Doctrine of Discovery
This King of England founded the Anglican Church (Church of England) because he wanted to divorce his wife.
Henry VIII
These were the first humans in general to discover the Americas.
Native Americans
This Catholic priest advocated for the rights of Native Americans
Bartolome de las Casas
France hired this explorer to find a Northwest Passage. He found Quebec instead
Jacques Cartier
This disease brought by Europeans to the Americas devastated Native American societies
Smallpox
This was the navy of the Spanish Empire that the English defeated, shocking Europe
The Spanish Armada
When Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, he thought he had actually landed in this place.
Asia, the East Indies, or India
The Incas
This explorer tried and failed to find a Northwest Passage, but has a river in New York named after him.
Henry Hudson
This was the exchange of foods, ideas, resources, and diseases between Europe and the Americas during the Age of Exploration
The Columbian Exchange
This word written on a wooden post was the only clue of what happened to the Roanoke Colonists who mysteriously vanished
Croatoan
These were the people Columbus first encountered in America.
The Taino
This system used by the Spanish could tax Native Americans or force them into slave labor
Encomienda System
He led the first ships to fully circle the planet, but he himself died on the way
Ferdinand Magellan
Europeans were cut off from this trading hub of a city by the Ottomans
Istanbul (Was Constantinople)
She was the first European colonist to be born in the Americas
Virginia White