Explorer 1
The year Christopher Columbus set sail.
What is 1492?
To be on a ship for many months.
What is really hard?
It is the Columbian Exchange.
What is the trade of goods and ideas between Europeans and Native Americans?
This person was the first to discover the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
The names of the three ships that Columbus was given.
What are the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
A person said, "I'm going to be rich! Now that I'm here, I can't wait to find all of the gold!"
Who is an explorer?
The most common motive for explorers.
What is finding riches?
He was forced into a small boat by his crew members, and they left him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The first to discover North America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The reason the land the explorers found in North and South America is called the "New World."
What is it was literally a new world for the Europeans. They never knew it existed.
The 3 G's for European Exploration.
Gold, God, and Glory.
He was the first to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Balboa?
The reason Columbus called the islands he landed on "the Indies."
What is he believed that by sailing west, he would get to India, so the first land he hit, he assumed it was India?
The place where all of the explorers were trying to get to.
What is Asia?
A person said, "We are so scared! Everyone in our community is dying from disease."
Who are Native Americans?
He claimed Florida for Spain.
Who is Leon?
He claimed New York Harbor for France.
Who is Verrazano?
He found Canada for France.
Who is Cartier?
He made new maps for the waters and land he explored.
He put England in the race to Asia.
Who is Cabot?