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Discovry Exploration
First Americans, Exploration, Spain's Crusade, France Colonizes
| People | Identity |
|---|---|
| Bering Strait | where some historians believe that early Americans crossed |
| Leif Erickson | (980?-1020?)a Viking adventurer from Scandinavia, landed in North America in the New World remained unknown to most Europeans and had no important consequences |
| Amerigo Vespucci | (1451-1512) was an Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were separate from the continent of Asia. America was named for him in 1507, when the German mapmaker printed the first map that used the name America |
| Giovanni Verrazano | (1485-1528) was an Italian navigator who, in 1524, explored the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine while searching for a Northwest passage to Asia. |
| Jacques Cartier | (1491-1557) a French explorer who led an expedition that discovered the St. Laurence River. |
| Sir Francis Drake | (1545-1596) a British explorer, slave-trader, privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England, mayor of Plymouth, England, and naval officer (he was an Admiral).He led the second expedition to sail around the world. |
| Sir John Hawkins | (1532- 1595) an English naval officer, slave trader, privateer. He interfered with Spanish trade by smuggling English goods into Spanish colonies in America. |
| Elizabeth I | (1533-1603) a protestant queen of England who threatened the flow of wealth from the New World to Spain. She encouraged English pirates to prey upon Spanish shipping. |
| Moors | Muslims from North Africa and the region of Granada in southern Spain |
| Marco Polo | 1200's the first European to travel the length of Asia |
| Johann Gutenberg | 1440 introduced the movable type printing press; fist book printed was the Bible |
| Martin Luther | 1517 nailed his Ninety-five These tot he church door in Wittenberg, Germany protesting the false doctrines of the Roman Catholic church. |
| John Calvin | (1509-1564) his teachings had an influence on the people who colonized North America |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | mid-1400's a Portuguese who founded a navigation school, employed expert mapmakers, built an observatory to study the position of the sun and stars, and designed a new kind of ship, the caravel, to sail against the wind |
| Bartholomeu Dias | 1488 reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | sailed all the way around Africa to India |
| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | Spanish monarchs who sponsored Columbus expedition across the Atlantic to the Indies. |
| Hernando Cortes | 1521 conquered the Aztecs of Mexico |
| Montezuma | a powerful chieftain of the Aztecs. |
| Pedro Cabral | 1500 landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed that land for Portugal. |
| Ponce de Leon | 1519 first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America. He was conqueror and governor of Puerto Rico, and embarked on a search of a fabled fountain of youth. |
| Vasco de Balboa | crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1519 a Portuguese sailor employed by the Spanish embarked on an epic three-year voyage around the world |
| Francisco Pizarro | 1533 conquered the Incas of Peru |
| Cabeza de Vaca | discovered and explored southern Texas and parts of New Mexico and Arizona. His account inspired stories of the wealthy "Seven City of Cibola" |
| Francisco Coronado | 1540 looked for the Cities of Cibola and explored the southwestern United States. One party of his men discovered the Grand Canyon. |
| Hernando de Soto | 1541 discovered the Mississippi River |
| Juan Cabrillo | 1542 a Portuguese explorer employed by the Spanish, explored the coast of California. |
| Phililp II | monarch of Spain who with his clamed and actual possessions in the New World, controlled more of the earth's surface than any other man in history |
| Giovanni da Varrazano | explored the eastern coast of North America for France from North Carolina to Nova Scotia Canada |
| Jacques Cartier | 1534-1535 dicovered the St Lawrence River |
| Huguenots | 1560's French Protestants |
| Samuel de Champlain | 1608 established first permanent French settlement at Quebec |
| Jacques Marquette | 1673 a Jesuit missionary led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River |
| Louis Joliet | 1673 a fur trader led an expedition which explored the central Mississippi River |
| Robert Cavalier de la Salle | 1682 claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France and named it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XVI of France |
| Iroquois | a Native American tribe who sede with the British in conflicts between the French and British |
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