This person sailed from Spain in 1492. He was sponsored by Queen Isabella.
Who is Columbus?
100
This early explorer was the subject of a published book (1477) that detailed his journey in the Far East during the 1200's. The book described China as a land of great wealth. This sparked the world's interest in finding a passage to Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
This a model of the earth.
What is a globe?
100
Marco Polo's book helped European exploration in this way.
What is by sparking people's imagination and desire to find a passage to Asia- the country of wealth and beauty.
100
This is the reason the English EXPLORERS came to the Americas.
What is Cabot and Drake were looking for a route to and through the Indies?
200
This person was searching for the "Fountain of Youth". He landed in what is now known as Florida.
Who is Ponce De Leon?
200
This explorer also set sail in 1497. He was an Italian that made several journeys to the northeastern coast of what is now South America. He named this area "America".
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
This is the main reason that world explorers sailed in the 1400-1500's.
What is to find a route to the Far East?
200
Queen Isabella helped Christopher Columbus in these ways.
What she sponsored his trip. She gave him ships and money.
200
This is the reason that the first English COMPANIES came to the Americas.
What is they came to set up a supply base for the English warships and to establish a permanent colony. The Virginia Company and the Plymouth Company got charters for land and wanted to make money from trade.
300
This explorer set forth from England in 1497. He was from Italy but had taken an English name. He discovered Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
300
This explorer was in search of a "Northwest Passage". Although he was Italian, he sailed with the support of France. He landed in what is now known as North Carolina and made his way up the coast to Newfoundland.
Who is Giovanni Verrazano?
300
Christopher Columbus started his first colony in this country.
What is Hispaniola?
300
England gained this ________ after they defeated the Spanish Armada.
What is power and control?
300
This is the reason the first English COLONISTS came to the Americas.
What is to find religious and political freedom?
400
This explorer set sail in 1519. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed on the coast of South America. He then traveled South and made it around the tip and into the Pacific Ocean, hence finding a passage around the New World.
Who is Magellan?
400
This explorer was sent in 1534 to continue to look for a Northwest Passage. He explored the what is now known as the St. Lawrence River in Canada. He believed this river was the true NW passage to Asia. He was mistaken.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
400
In 1606, King James granted a land charter to this establishment.
What is The Virginia Company?
400
Far away lands appealed to the English under King James I rule because of ____________.
What is King James I's strict religious rule and political control.
400
The Northwest Passage was never found. The search for it was very important because....
What is Cartier discovered the St. Lawrence River. He claimed the land for France. This helped establish settlements in Canada/North America. His mistake helped France gain land control in Canada.
500
This explorer landed on the coast of what is now Mexico. He eventually defeated the Aztec King, Montezuma and claimed the land for Spain.
Who is Cortes?
500
This explorer followed Magellan's route around the tip of South America. Unlike Magellan though, he continued up the coast of South and then North America to what is now known as the state of Washington.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
This settlement is known as the "Lost Colony".
What is Roanoke?
500
Ferdinand Magellan's expedition was very important to exploration because of this.
What is his travels proved the world was, in fact, round instead of flat.
500
Early explorers fought with or conquered native peoples. Why do you think they did this? What could have been done differently?
What is to secure land and/or resources. Answers may vary for the second part.