European Exploration Unit

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

Where did the Vikings originate?

Pirate(s)

What does the word Viking mean?

Leif Eriksson

What Viking was the first European to set down upon North America?

Longships

What type of ship did the Vikings utilize?

Europeans saw exploration as a way to bring Christianity to other cultures that lived in other lands

Why did the Europeans wish to explore the world?

created a school of navigation

How did Prince Henry encourage international exploration?

Vasco Da Gama

Which explorer created the trade route around Africa to India?

the Treaty of Tordesillas

How did Spain and Portugal solve their issue over the New World?

The Treaty of Tordesillas

How was the Line of Demarcation adjusted?

Christopher Columbus

What explorer is credited with discovering the New World?

Spain

What country sent that explorer?

a direct water route west from Europe to Asia

What was Christopher Columbus looking for on his expedition

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

What three ships were on the original Columbus expedition?

San Salvador

Where did those three ships first land?

October 12, 1492

When did those three ships land in the Americas?

Amerigo Vespucci

For whom was the New World named?

the Aztecs

Whom did Hernan Cortes defeat?

Inca Empire

Whom did Francisco Pizzaro defeat?

What extensive road system linked New Spain?

Pueblos, Missions, Presidios

What were the three types of settlements in New Spain?

like slaves

How did the Spanish treat Native Americans?

The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples

What was the encomienda system?

Ferdinand Magnellan

Who was credited with being the first to circumnavigate the
world?

Juan Ponce de León

What Spanish explorer searched Florida for the Fountain of
Youth?

conquistador Hernando de Soto

Who claimed the Mississippi River for the Spanish?

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Which Spaniard discovered the Grand Canyon?

John Cabot

Which explorer claimed land along the east coast in the name of
England?

French colonists often engaged in cooperative relationships with Native Americans, while their Spanish counterparts seemed more interested in controlling and enslaving large groups of Native Americans.

How did the French treatment of Native Americans differ from
that of the English and Spanish?

Jacques Cartier

Which French explorer claimed the land around the St.
Lawrence River?

the fur trade

What was the basis of the New France economy?

La Salle

Who explored the Mississippi River Valley and named it Louisiana?

New Netherland

Where was the only Dutch settlement in the New World?

Who claimed that land for the Dutch?

What two modern day roads were originally created under Peter
Styvesant’s leadership in New Amsterdam?

Why did the European powers have to leave the Americas for a
new source of cheap labor?

Angolans

From where were African slaves first brought to America?

1510

When did the Spanish government legalize the slave trade?

Middle Passage

As what was the slave ship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to
Americas known?

26 percent

What percentage of enslaved people on the Middle Passage were
children?

25 percent

What was the death rate of the slaves on these ships?