European Exploration

What the Europeans called North and South America because they didn't know they existed before.

• Northwest Passage

• Old World

• Indigenous

• New World

People who create maps are called...

• Indies

• Cartographers

• Import

Gold, God, and Glory ....

• Reasons to explore North America

• Reasons to explore route to Asia

• Effects of slavery on Native Americans

• Effects of European exploration

Which country sponsored Christopher Columbus's exploration to America?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Portugal

___________ was the first European to reach America in 1492, he had 3 ships on his voyage: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Amerigo Vespucci

America was first known as the ______________ to Europeans. 

• United States
• New World
• Atlanta
• Canada

_______________ was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean in 1513.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Henry Hudson

Columbus thought that he had arrived at  ___________, and therefore called the Natives he met Indians.

• Cathay
• Africa
• America
• India

What religion did explorers want to spread during the European Exploration?

• Catholicism

• Hinduism

• Christianity

• Islam

What were two motivations for European Exploration?

• Relocation and new beginnings

• Sickness and Starvation

• War and famine

• Spices and Spread of Religion