European Exploration aTicket fTicket kTicket pTicket uTicket bTicketcTicketdTicketeTicket gTickethTicketiTicketjTicket lTicketmTicketnTicketoTicket qTicketrTicketsTickettTicket $500vTicketwTicketxTicketyTicket

aTicket aTicket click here for answer A long carefully organized trip or voyage.

click here to go back to game aTicket aTicket What is an expedition?

fTicket fTicket click here for answer Because of this, European interest in Asia began to grow.

fTicket fTicket click here to go back to game What is Marco Polo’s book?

kTicket kTicket click here for answer In the 1400’s this improved travel by sea.

kTicket kTicket click here to go back to game What is technology?

pTicket pTicket click here for answer Finding new trade routes, controlling new lands, establishing colonies, and spreading their religion

pTicket pTicket click here to go back to game What were goals of European exploration ?

uTicket uTicket click here for answer Catholic countries, such as Spain, began converting people in the New World to the Catholic religion.

uTicket uTicket click here to go back to game What was a goal of the Counter Reformation?

bTicket bTicket click here for answer Present day New York and Albany were colonized by this group.

bTicket bTicket click here to go back to game Who were the Dutch?

gTicket gTicket click here for answer Africa, Europe, and the Americas carried goods and enslaved people on this route.

gTicket gTicket click here to go back to game What is the Atlantic Trade Route, or the Triangular Trade Route?

lTicket lTicket click here for answer England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia were all countries that claimed land on these two continents.

lTicket lTicket click here to go back to game What are the Americas?

qTicket qTicket click here for answer Settlements were built near these two bodies of water to make transporting people and supplies easier.

qTicket qTicket click here to go back to game Why did colonists build settlements near the sea or along a river ?

vTicket vTicket click here for answer Trade by land was dangerous (bad weather, illness, thieves) and new technology in sailing (magnetic compass, astrolabe, and caravels) improved travel by sea for the Europeans traveling to this continent.

vTicket vTicket click here to go back to game Why did European traders begin to travel to Asia?

cTicket cTicket click here for answer An expedition that began in what is now present day Florida was led by this Spanish explorer.

cTicket cTicket click here to go back to game What expedition did Juan Ponce de Leon lead?

hTicket hTicket click here for answer This Spanish explorer explored the American Southwest.

hTicket hTicket click here to go back to game Where did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explore?

mTicket mTicket click here for answer The tool that improved sailing by showing which direction is north.

mTicket mTicket click here to go back to game What is the magnetic compass ?

rTicket rTicket click here for answer Improved technology, like this tool helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location.

rTicket rTicket click here to go back to game What is the astrolabe?

wTicket wTicket click here for answer A water route through North America to the Pacific.

wTicket wTicket click here to go back to game What is the Northwest Passage?

dTicket dTicket click here for answer An expedition to lands south of where Columbus had landed, and were unknown by Europeans, was accomplished by this explorer.

dTicket dTicket click here to go back to game Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

iTicket iTicket click here for answer The first crew to complete a circumnavigation was led by this explorer.

iTicket iTicket click here to go back to game Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

nTicket nTicket click here for answer Improved technology, like this type of sail helped sailors change direction

nTicket nTicket click here to go back to game What is a caravel?

sTicket sTicket click here for answer An explorer that led an expedition to Florida and later became the first to see the Mississippi River.

sTicket sTicket click here to go back to game Who is Hernando de Soto ?

xTicket xTicket click here for answer ASpanish explorer who hoped to reach Asia, but landed on the island of San Salvador and called the natives “Indians”

xTicket xTicket click here to go back to game Who is Christopher Columbus?

eTicket eTicket click here for answer An area or place ruled by a distant country

eTicket eTicket click here to go back to game What is a colony?

jTicket jTicket click here for answer To change someone’s or one’s own beliefs

jTicket jTicket click here to go back to game What is to convert?

oTicket oTicket click here for answer This Spanish explorer/ conqueror took over the wealthy Aztec empire in what is now Mexico

oTicket oTicket click here to go back to game Who is Hernando Cortes?

tTicket tTicket click here for answer This Spanish explorer/ conqueror took over the Inca empire in what is now Peru.

tTicket tTicket click here to go back to game Who is Francisco Pizarro?

yTicket yTicket click here for answer An official document from an authority to do something.

yTicket yTicket click here to go back to game What is a charter?