U.S. History: Early Exploration

the first people to live in North America

to travel for the purpose of discovery

• Exploration
• nomodic
• migration

wandering from place to place

• nomadic
• exploation
• migration

Spanish conquerors

• Conquistadors
• Aztec
• Explorers

Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.

• Henry the Navigator
• Chirstopher Columbus
• Hernan Cortez

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

• Christopher Columbus
• Hernan Cortez
• Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Hernan Cortez

The trading of various animals, diseases, and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres

• Colombian Exchange
• Triangle Trade
• Silk Road

A Spanish Conquistador who defeated and conquered the Aztec Empire

• Hernan Cortez
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Francisco Pizarro

Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.

• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernan Cortez
• Henry the Navigator