1. Explorers Notes

2. Circa 1000 C.E. – Leif Eiriksson lands in Newfoundland (Canada)
• Norse or Viking explorer probably born in Iceland - Scandinavia
• Searching for new land and treasures (Vikings were famous explorers)
• Landed in what they called Vinland
• Abandoned settlement for unknown reasons

3. • Scandinavian Folklore old Norse sagas or songs for the last 1,000 C
• Scandinavian Folklore old Norse sagas or songs for the last 1,000 C.E. about Lief Eiriksson discovering Vinland
• proof was found in 1960 when two Norwegian Explorers discovered the remains of a Viking site in Newfoundland, Canada

4. 1492 C.E. – Columbus lands in the West Indies
• Italian explorer working for Queen Isabella of Spain • Searching for quicker route to East Indies in Asia to get spices, silk and other desired goods • landed in Hispaniola, This area became known as West Indies, today the Caribbean

5. • his voyages to the Caribbean resulted in gold, enslaved natives, and the spread of Christianity.
• The Spanish quickly established colonies in the Caribbean and in South America

6. Spain brought the first African enslaved peoples to the Americas in the Caribbean to work on the plantations - Triangle Trade.
brought diseases which American Indians had no immunity to.
millions died, Europeans could colonize easily, said God was on their side.

7. 1524 C.E. – Giovanni de Verrazano
• lands in Carolina. Italian explorer working for French • Landed near Cape Fear • Thought the Pamlico Sound was the Pacific Ocean • Traveled north, stopping near the future New York and Rhode Island where he met the Wampanoag.

8. 1539 C.E. – Hernando de Soto lands near Florida
• By 1520s, Spain had conquered people from Cuba to Mexico and found Pacific Ocean
• Also searching for quicker route to the East Indies in Asia, richest market in the world
• Landed in Carolina by 1540 and met Catawba and Cherokee in Appalachian Mountains

9. • De Soto stole, cheated them, and treated them badly - he died of fever • Spain gave up colonizing Carolina but became rich from colonies in- Florida, South America, and Caribbean

10. 1580s – English under Queen Elizabeth I
• English and Spanish were the two most powerful countries at the end of the 16th Century • Spain brought tons of gold from Americas • English wanted to stop Spain, Queen Elizabeth allowed privateers (legal Pirates) to plunder (steal) from Spanish ships

11. • Queen Elizabeth I gave Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to establish permanent colonies in the Americas
• Roanoke seemed perfect for English privateer ships to spend winter because it was near the Spanish colony of Florida and hidden behind barrier islands.