Explorers
Goodies!!!
Early Colonies
Countries Involved
Non Europeans
400

An Irish monk said to be the first to see North America

St. Brendan

400

Goods traded from New World to old World through this network across the Atlantic

Columbian Exchange

400

First colony that everyone disappeared 

CROATOAN 

Roanoke

400

Started a fur trapping trade with natives in what is today Canada later taken by guess who the British

France

400

Travelled across many mile and the land bridge to follow food or in this case animal meat

Nomads

600

Italian Sailor funded by Spain to find a direct maritime route to Asia

Christopher Columbus

600

Idea that trade generates wealth

Mercantilism 

600

Probably the most profitable colony in Virginia

Jamestown 

600

First settled in New Amsterdam

Dutch

600

These people figured out how to farm crops and no longer roamed the earth but built their homes on the land. Many were killed or taken from their lands

Native Americans

800

Came from Greenland and found Vinland

Leif Ericson

800

First major cash crop grown in Virginia

Tobacco

800

Pilgrims and Puritans settled in this area

Massachusetts 

800

Claimed most of the eastern coastline of the New World

England

800

Animals with big tusks and lots of hair. Can you imagine how the first one was killed. Could have been self defense

Mammoths

1000

He, Unofficially worked for the queen of England to raid Spanish ships

Sir Francis Drake

1000

This food was grown by Native Americans and tasted   AMAZING!!!!

Maize

1000

William Penn took his Quakers and formed this state

Pennsylvania 

1000

First European country to fund and send explorers

Spain

1000

Were taken by force first by Portuguese merchants that was considered the middle part of the Triangular trade route 

African slaves

1500

He was the first to see the Pacific through what is now Panama. 

Vasco Nunez De Balboa

1500

Caused a land bridge 

Ice Age

1500

Lord Baltimore founded this colonial state

Maryland

1500

First to start the slave trade

Portugal 

1500

Nomads crossed this land bridge to get to the other side. Today is a mighty sea in the northern part of the world

Beringia