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Explorers I
Explorers II
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2. English monarchs sent explorers to the New World to ensure that they would remain the most powerful, dominant country in the world over Portugal and Spain…

3. POLITICAL

4. Advancements in shipbuilding, like the caravel

5. Technological

6. Europeans wanted goods from the Far East without the added cost of paying middle men

7. ECONOMIC

8. Improvements in navigation skills, like the astrolabe and cartograpy

9. TECHNOLOGICAL

10. What is a caravel?

11. A small, fast ship with triangular sails

12. France; explored Mississipi River to its mouth in Gulf of Mexico and named it Louisiana

13. Robert
LaSalle

14. Netherlands and England; In searching for the
Northwest Passage, he claimed
and mapped what is now
New York for the Dutch and lands in Canada
for the English. The Hudson River and Hudson Bay are named for him.

15. Henry Hudson

16. Spain; conquistador who explored the southeast and claimed it for

17. Hernando de Soto

18. Spain; first to sail around the world

19. Ferdinand
Magellan

20. England; searched for a quick route to the Far East
known as the Northwest Passage
explored the Arctic Circle

21. John
Cabot

22. What were the top three motivations for exploration of the New World?

23. God
Gold
Glory

24. Spain; discovered the lands and wealth of North and South America beginning in 1492

25. Christopher
Columbus

26. Although most people knew the world wasn’t flat, most people thought the Far East could be reached by sailing in which direction?

27. West

28. Viking from Greenland; settled briefly in North America but did not stay long or share discovery

29. Leif
Eriksson

30. What was created in most of the places where explorers first staked their claims?

31. Settlements

32. Central America South America Florida The Southwest US

33. Spain (Spanish)
New Spain

34. St. Lawrence River
Mississippi River
New Orleans

35. France (French)
New France

36. Hudson River
New Netherlands
New Amsterdam
New York

37. Dutch
(The Netherlands)
Holland

38. The Atlantic coast of North America;
Virginia,
New England

39. England
(English)
Britain
(British)

40. What was the purpose of a settlement?

41. To make money and gain new land

42. Wheat, rice, coffee, pigs, cows, horses, and chickens

43. Europeans To
New World

44. How did giving Native Americans horses change life for the Plains Indians?

45. It made it easier for them to hunt bison

46. Corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash

47. To Europe from the New World

48. What was so important about these crops going to Europe?

49. It improved their diets – made them healthier

50. Diptheria, Measles, Smallpox, Malaria

51. Explorers to
Native Americans