Explorers
This Viking was the first to North America.
Who was Leif Eriksson?
This person ruled the Aztec Empire.
Who is Moctezuma II
This country claimed the land in the Virginia & North Carolina area.
Who is England?
A contract to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
The location of the Inca Empire.
What is South America? (Peru)
This ship was lighter, faster and could sail against the wind.
What is a caravel?
This explorer landed in the Bahamas thinking he found Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This country became the leader in Exploration.
Where is Portugal?
This country claimed land in the Louisiana and Quebec area.
Who is France?
To go around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
The location of the Aztec Empire?
Where is Mexico?
This is a huge fleet of Spanish sailing ships.
What is the Spanish Armada?
This explorer's trip was the first to circumnavigate the world by ship.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Christopher Columbus was from this Country.
Where is Italy?
This country claimed land in Florida, Mexico and South America.
Who is Spain?
Spanish military explorers.
What are conquistadors?
This invention helped the Protestants spread their message.
What is the printing press?
Prince Henry the Navigator created this to advance exploration.
What are sailing schools?
This explorer realized that the lands being discovered in the Americas (South specifically) were not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Reformers who protested some of the catholic practices.
Who are the Protestants?
This people claimed the land Iceland and Greenland.
Who are the Vikings?
A religious movement that started in Germany and spread through Europe disagreeing with some of Catholic practices.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
To exchange plants and animals between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Pinta, Nine & Santa Marie.
What are the ships that Christopher Columbus brought to America?
This explorer was from Portugal and his trip made it around the world.
Who is Magellan?
This explorer wrote a book about his experiences in China/Asia that sparked and interest to travel to Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
This country claimed the land in the New York and New Jersey area.
Who are the Dutch?
The imaginary line that divided the Atlantic Ocean for claiming undiscovered land.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
This caused many Native Americans to die when the European countries came to the Americas.
What are diseases?
This is the year Christopher Columbus reached the Bahamas.
What is 1492?