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What is used for trade in a monetary economy?
Currency
The name Florida means...
Land of flowers
Who founded the Hudson River and Hudson Bay?
(must give first and last name)
Henry Hudson
French trading center where Europeans and Native Americans sought furs and tools?
Quebec
How did the English help defeat the Spanish Armada?
They sent burning ships into the spanish battle formations
European knights went on crusades because they wanted to capture the ....
Holy Land
What river did De Soto find?
the Mississippi
What resource did John Cabot find?
Rich fishing areas
Why was Constantinople important to the spice trade?
It was at the crossroads of valuable trade routes
What happened to surviving Spanish Armada?
A Storm sank some ships and others returned to
Spain
Columbus reached land in the "New World" on what date.
October 12, 1492
What city is the oldest continuously inhbited European settlement in North America?
St. Augustine
Who attacks angered Spain?
Francis Drake
Why did Columbus think his westward route to the East Indies would work?
He tought the world was smaller than what it really is
Why did the first Roanoak colonists return to England?
They thought starting a new colony from scratch was to hard
What country supported Columbus' exploration?
Spain
What is an isthmus?
A small thin piece of land that connects two larger land masses
What English colony struggled to survive?
Roanoke
What did the Portuguese introduce to Europe?
the trade of human beings
What did Raleigh do differently to establish a Roanoak colony?
He sent womanand children hoping families would stay.
Ponce de Leon found a land and called it....
la Florida
Who supported and encouraged commercial trade?
Prince Henry
Searched for a shorter route to Asia, clamed land for Spain.
Christopher Columbus
How did the Spanish interact with the indigenous people?
They wanted to conquer them
what did Ponce de Leon hope to find when he explored?
The fountian of youth