Explorers
This was the area explored by Vasco de Gama.
What is the eastern coast of Africa?
This word means the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up encourage settlement in their newly conquered lands.
What is encomiendas?
Jacques Cartier claimed this North American area for France.
This is the location of the Straits of Magellan.
What is the southern tip of South America?
This is what the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplished.
What is the division of land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal?
He is one explorer who did not visit North America.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This is what we call the much-searched-for sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This is the trade that got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France.
What is the fur trade?
This is the landmark that was first reached by Bartolomeu Dias.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
These are the tools navigators used to know where they were and where they were going.
What is an astrolabe and a magnetic compass?
This is why Henry Hudson is famous.
What is sail up a river into present-day New York, and also find a huge inland sea in Canada?
This word means a navigational instrument that uses a telescope and scale to determine latitude and longitude.
What is a sextant?
This country took over the spice trade after Portugal weakened.
What is the Netherlands?
Though Pedro Cabral was aiming for India, this is where he actually ended up.
What is Brazil?
This was the FIRST English colony in North America.
What is Roanoke Island?
This Venetian explorer's tales of travels encouraged the exploration of Asia.
Who was Marco Polo?
This word means a situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of the supply of a good or service.
What is a monopoly?
This is the word that means the practice of controlling and settling an area with people from another country.
What is colonization?
This is the body of water visited by Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
He was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States.
Who was Giovanni de Verrazano?
He was the prince who kickstarted Portuguese exploration in the 1400s.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
This was what we call the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to America.
What was the Middle Passage?
This is the place Christopher Columbus landed on his first voyage.
What are the Bahamas?
This was the first PERMANENT settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
He was the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of Indians.
Who was Las Casas?