This explorer gets credit for being the first European to "discover" a new world.
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
How did Native Americans feel about European explorers AT FIRST?
What is friendly?
100
This Dutch explorer explored the North American coast, including the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
This is how Balboa traveled to South America.
What is stowaway?
100
The king and queen who gave Christopher Columbus the money and supplies he needed to begin his voyage.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
200
He was the first Viking to visit North America.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
200
A silent threat that Europeans brought with them which killed the Native Americans.
What is disease?
200
This French explorer traveled down the St. Lawrence River into the Great Lakes.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
200
This is what Balboa gets credit for being the first European to see.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
These men conquered the natives and made them work the land.
Who are conquistadors?
300
This explorer gets credit for being the first person to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This is who the Native Americans thought owned the land.
Who is everyone?
300
These two explorers traveled down the Mississippi River to explore and make maps.
Who are Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet?
300
This is a narrow body of water at the southern tip of South America.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
300
The Spanish build many successful colonies in the New World. This is what they called the land they owned.
What is "The Great Spanish Empire"?
400
This explorer traveled from Florida through the Southeast (including Tennessee) and then back to the Gulf of Mexico to find gold and slaves.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
400
This is what the European explorers did to the Native Americans land.
What is claimed it?
400
This explorer was hired by the King of England to make a voyage to the New World. When he reached Newfoundland, he claimed all of North America for England.
Who is John Cabot?
400
This is the name of the Inca city that Pizarro conquered.
What is Cuzco?
400
When goods were traded by Columbus between the New World and Europe.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
500
This English explorer brought people from England to North America to start a colony.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
500
This French were friendly to the Native Americans because they wanted this.
What are furs?
500
While trying to find a water route to China, this explorer traveled up the Atlantic Coast of North America and discovered the mouth of the Hudson River.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
500
The Spanish said they were conquering the Americas for these three reasons.
What is "For God, for Glory, and for Gold?"
500
The Aztec king who welcomed Cortes to Tenochtitlan before it was captured.