Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Europe Looks Onward
History, Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| believed he could reach Asia by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, also thought America to be the Easte Indies and he himself came from West Indies (Lived In Portugal though they got sick of his ideas) | Christopher Columbus |
| a traditional story of unknown authorship | myth |
| is a Spanish colonist that explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama.(was first European to see the Pacific Ocean) | Vasco Nunez de balboa |
| wanted to find atlantic pacific passage and had his first crew to go around the entire earth | Ferinand Magellan |
| a passage that connects two bodies of water | strait |
| a spanish colonist who traveled from Cuba to Mexico and defeated the Aztecs | Hernando Cortes |
| Aztec leader | Moctezuma |
| a spanish priest who traveled through new spain working for reform | Bartolome de Las Casa |
| a Italian explorer, exploreded newfoundland, north america through chesapeake bay. Focused on finding nothwest passage. | John Cabot |
| English explorer, named after Hudson Bay and looked for northwest passage | Henry Hudson |
| Explored/established lands along the st. lawerence river called Quebec | Samuel de Champlain |
| French missionary, founded two missions along great lake | Jacques Marquette |
| conqured Incas | Franciso Pizarro |
| claimed area around missispi river for France and renamed it Lousiana | Rene Cavelier La Slle |
Created by:
marleene 8
Popular U.S. History sets