Who was the 1st explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?
Bartholemeu Dias
Who was the explorer who claimed what is now Brazil for Portugal?
Cabral
Who was the explorer who discovered the islands later known as the West Indies?
Christopher Columbus
Who was the explorer who seized the Inca Empire for Spain?
Pizarro
Who was the explorer whose voyage up the St. Lawrence River gave France a claim to much of eastern Canada?
Cartier
Who was the 1st explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian Ocean to India?
Vasco da Gama
Who was the explorer who sailed down the Mississippi and claimed Louisiana for France?
laSalle
Who was the explorer who claimed the Philippine Islands for Spain?
Magellan
Who was the founder of Quebec?
Champlain
Who was the explorer who claimed the "South Sea" for Spain?
Balboa
Who was the explorer who invaded Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire?
Cortes
Who was the Italian explorer after whom America was named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Juan Ponce de ______, Spanish explorer who sailed northward from Puerto Rico in 1513 and explored Florida
Leon
Prince _________ (the __________) established the nation of _______ as a leader in knowledge about the seas.
Henry (the Navigator)/Portugal
In 1488, ________ sailed around the _________ at the southern tip of Africa.
Bartholomeu Dias/Cape of Good Hope
The Portuguese sea captain, ________, was the 1st to sail across the _______ to reach India in the year 1498.
Vasco da Gama/Indian Ocean
The _________ involved the movement of products and diseases between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
Columbian Exchange
Pope Alexander VI drew the _____ on a world map through the middle of the Atlantic. The nation of _______ was granted new lands E of the line, while ______ received lands W of the line. This agreement was adjusted the following year thru the _______.
line of demarcation/Portugal/Spain/Treaty of Tordesillas
Which Portuguese explorer accidentally reached the east coast of South America in 1500?
Pedro Cabral
For which explorer is America named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Why did Ferdinand Magellan change the name of the Great South Sea to the Pacific Ocean?
The latin word pacificus means peaceful
Who had first named the Great South Sea?
Balboa
2 Islands visited by Christopher Columbus.
Hispaniola and Cuba
Explorers that the English, French, and Dutch sent to attempt to find a Northwest Passage.
Marquette and Joliet, Cartier, Champlain, Hudson, La Salled, Cabot
The fleet of the navigator, ______, from the nation of ________ was the 1st to circumnavigate the globe, while an Englishman named _____ became the 2nd.
Magellan/Portugal/Drake
Cartier, Champlain, and La Salle explored a region that became known as ________.
New France
In 1513, the Spanish explorer ________crossed a narrow strip of land known as the ________, to be the 1st European to view the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco Nunz de Balboa/Isthmus of Panama
The Spanish settlement of _______ was established by De Soto.
St Augustine
The center of the Inca civilization was centered in which South American mountain range? This range runs through which modern nations?
Andes/Peru and Chile
The French explorer _______ claimed Louisiana for the French king based on his travels down the ________ Rivers.
La Salle/Mississippi
The Spanish explorer, ________, led an expedition to what is today the state of Florida.
Ponce de leon
The Aztec ruler, ________, was killed by the Spanish explorer, _______ in the city of _________.
Moctezuma/Hernan Cortes/Tenochtitlan
Atahualpa, ruler of the ________ was strangled by order of the Spanish leader named ________.
Inca Empire/Francisco Pizarro
The development of ________ allowed people to buy shares of stock that gave them part ownership in businesses.
joint-stock companies
To gain a _________ (selling more goods than buying) nations could impose a ______, or tax on imports. The intent of this tax was to _______.
Favorable balance of trade/Tariff/Discourge from buying foreign goods or reduce the amt of goods imported into the country
The economic theory called ________ encouraged the establishment and settling of ________. This they hoped would bring in greater amts of _______. Besides the mining of these minerals, colonies were expected to provide______
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