european exploration

who conquered this territory: indonesia

portugal

who conquered this territory: india

portugal

who conquered this territory: brazil

portugal

who conquered this territory: west coast of africa

portugal

who conquered this territory: indian ocean territories

portugal

who conquered this territory: most of s. america

Spanish

who conquered this territory: florida

spanish

who conquered this territory: texas

spanish

who conquered this territory: arizona

spanish

who conquered this territory: new mexico

spanish

who conquered this territory: colorado

spanish

who conquered this territory: mexico

spanish

who conquered this territory: mesoamerica

spanish

who conquered this territory: hispaniola

spanish

who conquered this territory: cuba

spanish

who conquered this territory: puerto rico

spanish

who conquered this territory: peru

spanish

who conquered this territory: saint augustine

spanish

who conquered this territory: ohio river valley

french

who conquered this territory: haiti

french

who conquered this territory: guadaloupe

french

who conquered this territory: martinique

french

who conquered this territory: quebec

french

who conquered this territory: louisiana

french

who conquered this territory: new orleans

french

who conquered this territory: detroit, michigan

french

who conquered this territory: st. louis, missouri

french

who conquered this territory: great lakes region

french

who conquered this territory: new amsterdam

dutch

who conquered this territory: hudson river/bay/strait

dutch

who conquered this territory: aruba

dutch

who conquered this territory: antigua

english

who conquered this territory: bermuda

english

who conquered this territory: barbados

english

who conquered this territory: turks & caico

english

who conquered this territory: virgin islands

english

who conquered this territory: east coast north america

english

who conquered this territory: plymouth bay

english

who conquered this territory: jamestown

english

who conquered this territory: virginia

english

who conquered this territory: massachusetts

english

amerigo vespucci

sailed along south america, realized he wasn’t in asia, german mapmaker named the americas after him

atahualpa

incan ruler, killed by francisco pizzaro, offered gold for his freedom but died anyway

bartolome de las casa

a priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of natives, influenced the spanish to pass the law illegalizing native enslavement

bartolomeu dias

portuguese explorer whose ship accidentally made it to the southern tip of africa, he named it the cape of good hope

captain john smith

took charge in jamestown, enforced a “work or starve” policy, helped better the relationships with the native powhatan chief, helped jamestown rebuild

chief powhatan

daughter is pocahontas and she married john rolfe, leader of powhatan confederacy, helped teach english how to grow maize

christopher columbus

an italian man who sailed for spain, sponsored voyage by king ferdinand and queen isabella for him to sail west to try and find a sea route to asia, makes 4 voyages, has 3 ships (the nina, the pinta, the santa maria), landed in the bahamas and those islands and called it the west indies, claimed the west indies and hispaniola for spain, opened the door for european exploration in the new world, did NOT discover america

De La Salle

French Explorer who travelled the Mississippi River and claimed Louisiana for the French

Erik the Red

Viking, son is Leif Erikson, discovered Greenland

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese man who sailed for man, died in the philliphines, crew was credited with 1st crew to circumnavigate the globe in 1522

francisco pizarro

spanish conquistador who conquered the incas, got paid ranson by the incas to kill atahualupa, captured cuzco

giovanni de verrazzano

An italian sent by the french to explore nova scotia

Henry Hudson

an englishman who explored manhattan island, claimed the hudson river/bay/strait for the dutch

hernan cortes

a spanish conquistador who conquered the aztecs after seeing how rich they were, captured tenochtitlan & montezuma, built mexico city off of the incan ruins, claimed it for spain

hernando de soto

spanish explorer who explored the south eastern part of the us and was the 1st european to cross the mississippi river

jacques cartier

french explorer who claimed canada for the french and explored the st lawrence river

john cabot

italian sailing for england, claimed newfoundland for england, 1st new world claim for england, thought he was in asia so he set sail for japan and was never heard from again

john rolfe

jamestown colonist who brought tobacco to the colony, made jamestown profitable from the tobacco exports, married pocahontas which led to better relations with the powhatan tribe

juan de ornate

established the province of new mexico, brought horses and cattle, maintained ruled against the pueblos, thought that every native 15+ should get 1 of their legs cut off

juan ponce de leon

landed in florida while searching for the fountain of youth, helped florida be the 1st spanish settlement in us

leif erikson

son of erik the red, discovered canada in 1000 and called it “vinland”

massasoit

leader of the wampanoag tribe, hated the pilgrims until samoset and squanto eased the tensions

metacom

native leader, called king phillip, attacked colonial villages in massachusetts, started kings phillip war that ended in native defeat

montezuma

leader of aztec, got captured by hernan cortes, thought hernan was a god who he welcomed him, offered cortes riches

nathaniel bacon

jamestown colonist who started a rebellion over land, high taxes, and the colony’s failure to meet the colonists demands, led bacons rebellion

pedro cabral

led a portuguese fleet and whilst on the way to africa he landed in brazil and claimed it for portugal

pocahontas

daughter of chief powhatan, married john rolfe, a renaissance figure because she wanted peace and cooperation, thought quality life of natives would be better with english help

pope

led the puebelo revolt of 1680 and drove the spanish out for 12 years

pope alexander vi

the pope who drew the demarcation line in the treaty of tordesilas, new world land to the west was for spain and the east was for portugal

prince henry the navigator

built a school of navigation that created the caravel, opened up chances for portguese sailors to explore the gold coast of africa

samuel chaplain

french explorer who created a trading post in quebec for the fur and metal trade

sir francis drake

an englishman that fought the spanish, helped the english win in the spanish armada, claimed san francisco for the spanish

sir walter raleigh

established roanoke with a charter and it failed (lol L), an english explorer

squanto

a native who helped the pilgrim have a better relationship with the wampanoag tribe and taught the pilgrims how to grow maize/crops

vasco de gama

portguese explorer who sailed from the cape of good hope and made it to india, established a direct trade route from portugal to asia

vasco de nunez balboa

1st european to see the pacific ocean by heading west and travelling thru panama, a spanish man

william bradford

plymouth leader, signed the mayflower compact, helped create a self governing government

what are the 3 g’s

god gold glory

3 new technologies

astrolabe, sextant, magnetic compass

native tribe in delaware is called the what

lenape

starving time and how it ended?

the winter of 1609 after john smith left, jamestown colonists began to die from famine and disease and only 60 out of the 400 originial colonists survived, it ended once the virginia company of london sent Lord De La Warr to govern jamestown