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100
This person never went on expeditions but paid for and encouraged others to go.
Who is Prince Henry?
100
These countries are where Magellan explored.
What are Chile, Guam, Phillipines, and the Pacific Ocean?
100
This is the first English colony of North America.
What is Roanoke Island?
100
This person was the first person to sail up the Atlantic Coast of North America.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazano?
100
A disease caused by a lack of vitamin C, which is found in fresh fruits and vegetables.
What is scurvy?
200
This person discovered Brazil while looking for a westward route to the Spice Islands.
Who is Pedro Cabral?
200
This person sailed to find a new trade route to Asia and landed on the shores of the Bahamas instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This person searched for the Northwest passage to the Indies and spotted "new found land".
Who is John Cabot?
200
This land was claimed for France by Jacques Cartier.
What are Canada and Montreal?
200
This was a slave's trip from Africa/Europe to the New World and it was inhuman, terrifying and disgraceful.
What was the Middle Passage?
300
This person sailed the shores of South America and had a continent named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
This person started the first voyage around the world; found passage of water at tip of South America and named the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300
He didn't realize that the Gulf of the St. Lawrence led to a great river.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
These two explorers were the first to reach the Mississippi River.
Who are Marquette and Jolliet?
400
Sailed around the tip of Africa; discovered Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
400
This person preached against slavery in present-day Haiti.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
400
This person sailed around the world, explored the west coast of North America and defeated the Spanish Armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
400
This was the kind of trade that got France into North America.
What is the fur trade (specifically beaver fur)?
400
This is a land grant given to Spanish settlers.
What is an encomienda?
500
Sailed along east coast of Africa; crossed the Indian Ocean.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
500
This person discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez De Balboa?
500
This person founded the "Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island in North Carolina.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
500
He sailed up a river into New York and found a huge inland sea for Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
A company that raises money by selling shares or interest in the company in the form of stock.
What is a joint-stock company?