West Africa
The Portuguese traded metals, cloth, and manufactured goods for this item.
What is gold?
Something done successfully
What are accomplishments?
This country established trading posts
Who was the French?
This man claimed the Southwest of the present-day United States for Spain.
Who was Francisco Coronado?
The West African empires were near this river.
What is the Niger River?
This is something that gets in the way of doing something else.
What are obstacles?
This nation conquered and enslaved the Native Americans.
Who are the Spanish?
This man established the French settlement of Quebec.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
The West African empires were south of this desert.
What is the Sahara desert?
These were some of the accomplishments of the explorers.
What were the improved navigational tools, claimed territories, and exchanged goods and ideas?
This country traded with the Native Americans.
Who are the English?
This man claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.
Who was Robert La Salle?
This nation carried goods from Europe to West African empires.
Who are the Portuguese?
These were some of the obstacles faced by the explorers
What were poor maps, navigational tools, disease, and fear of the unknown?
This people group believed the land was to be used and shared but not owed.
Who are the Native Americans?
This man explored eastern Canada for England.
Who was John Cabot?
These three empires dominated West Africa from 300 to 1600 A.D.?
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
These were the motivations that the European countries fought for.
What were gold, God, and glory?
This country spread the Christian religion.
Who are the French?
Daily Double: This nation made voyages to the coast of West Africa.
Who were the Portuguese?