Exploration and Motivation
He wrote about his travels to Asia, inspiring others to explore.
Who is Marco Polo?
Another name for the Columbian Exchange that describes its three-way trade system.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The Spanish colonizers were known for being this toward Indigenous Americans.
What is violent?
The London Company sent colonists to Virginia mainly to do this.
What is make money or profit?
Match the European country to the correct colonized area:
Spain
France
England
What are Spain → South & Central America; France → Canada & along Mississippi River; England → East Coast of North America; The Netherlands → Present-Day New York?
Europeans first set out on voyages because they wanted to find this shortcut to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Name one type of product or item that traveled from the Americas to Europe.
What are raw materials? (sugar, tobacco, cotton, corn, potato, etc.)
The French relationship with Indigenous Americans could best be described as this.
What is fair or equal?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Present-day Quebec (Canada) was colonized by this European power.
What is France?
Name two main reasons European exploration continued.
What are the search for riches, natural resources, power, religion, and competition with one another?
Name one thing that traveled from Europe or Africa to the Americas.
What are diseases, enslaved people, horses, manufactured goods, etc.?
The Dutch relationship with Indigenous Americans didn’t last long, so it was described as this.
What is short-lived and misunderstood?
Describe life for the early Jamestown colonists in one word.
What is difficult or deadly?
The Dutch settled in this region before the English took it over and renamed it New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
The desire for raw materials, power, and competition among nations drove this large historical movement.
What is European exploration and colonization?
The Columbian Exchange was important because it connected these three continents.
America(s), Africa, Europe
The English were this on Indigenous Americans, especially for survival at first.
What is dependent?
This problem almost destroyed Jamestown in its first year.
What is starvation and disease?
Spain’s empire stretched across these two large regions in the Americas.
What are Central and South America (and parts of the Caribbean)?
The Spanish Conquistador who violently conquered the Aztecs in present-day Mexico from 1519-1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
In 1521, this Spanish explorer was killed with a poison arrow in present-day Florida while he was searching for a "fountain of youth" that made old people young again.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
In this year the English took over New Amsterdam from the Dutch.
When is 1664?
The success of this cash crop eventually helped Jamestown survive.
What is tobacco?
In 1534, the French explorer, Jaques Cartier, failed to find the Northwest Passage or gold, but he did find this valuable commodity.
What is beaver fur?