Exploration and conquest

Who were the first people to reach North America?

• Vikings

• Europeans

• Spanish

• Native Americans

What does Vikings translate to?

• Horse

• Raiders

• North

• Europeans

_________ are people who make their living buying and selling goods.

Why was it hard to explore?

• People thought the world was flat

• There wasn’t enough money

• They had poor maps and tools

• Disease and starvation

• Men weren’t brave enough

Navigation is:

• Traveling

• A GPS system

• Moving ships around

• The science of getting ships from place to place

An astrolabe

• Measures latitude

• Measures temperature

• Measures the height of the stars

• Measures the angles of the stars

A compass

• Helps you find directions

• Help you steer a ship

• Help you find the closest McDonald’s

• Help you measure the height of the stars in the sky

A sextant

• Help you determine distance east and west

• Helps you measure the height of the stars in the sky

• Help you measure how far apart your arms are

• Helps measure the angles of the stars in the sky

I am sponsored by Spain, and I’m traveling in hopes to find India, but I found the Taino instead

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

I’m sponsored by England but I found a ton of fish and I was the first European to see Canada since the Vikings.

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson