Vocabulary
Conquistadors
European Explorers
The Lost Colony
Places
100

People who buy and sell goods

What are merchants?

100

means conqueror in Spanish

Conquistador

100

He made advances in navigation and established a school to train sailors

Who is Prince Henry?

100

This was the name of the Lost Colony

What is Roanoke?

100
The area that Marco Polo traveled to and explored with his family and then wrote a book about his experience.

What is China?

200
The science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship to help explorers travel long distances by sea

What is navigation?

200

This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in Central Mexico.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

200

He traveled to China and wrote a book about his experiences there

Who is Marco Polo?

200

Why did Sir Walter Raleigh choose Roanoke for a colony?

It was a central location to look for riches and to attack Spanish trade ships.

200

The first permanent European settlement in North America.

What is Saint Augustine, Florida?

300

A written document giving permission to do something such as explore new lands

What is a charter?

300

What were the Spanish conquistadors looking for on their conquests?

gold and riches

300

This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and landed in the Bahamas; came into contact with the Taino people

Who is Christopher Columbus?

300

Why did the first colony not survive?

They didn't have enough supplies and native people did not trade with them. They returned to England.

300

The Inca Empire was located in this part of the world.

What is the western coast of South America?

400

Strong, armed ships used for fighting and showing force

What are warships?

400

This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire along the western coast of South America.

Who is Fransico Pizzaro?

400

Samuel de Champlain was friendly with the Native people and formed ___________ with them in order to help grow the fur trade.

What are alliances?

400

When John White returned to Roanoke for a second time, what did he find?

The colonists had disappeared, houses dismantled, and a protect barrier fence was built. Also, the word Croatoan carved onto a tree were the only clues.

400

The Aztec empire was located here.

What is Central Mexico?

500

The act of taking control of land or people by force

What is a conquest?

500

What is a conquest?

taking over a land or group of people by military force and conflict

500

Why did New Netherlands fail as a colony?

They were too tired and depleted of supplies to fight the English because of conflict with the native people and political instability.

500

Who were the Croatoan?

A group of natives that lived nearby and could be linked to the disappearance of the colonists.

500

Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier explored this location and waterway

Canada and the Saint Lawrence River