European Exploration

___________ 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

Europeans were trying to find a water route to __________________, they thought that this would make their country rich with its silk, spices, and treasures. 

• Asia
• America
• Antartica
• Australia

To get from Europe to America by traveling west, explorers had to cross the ______________ Ocean. 

• Indian
• Atlantic
• Pacific
• Artic

This man traveled completely around the world.

• Marco Polo
• Bartholomew Dias
• Ferdinand Megallen
• Vasco de Gama

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

What word means anything that makes life easier?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

What was happening in Europe during this same time period?

• Renaissance, Reformations, and Scientific Revolution
• Feudalism and the Middle Ages
• Fighting over Russia
• Industrial Revolution

Most explorers were mainly interested in which of the following?

• Setting up new colonies.
• Working with the Native Americans.
• Expanding/finding trade routes and claiming land for their countries.
• Corn, beans, and squash.

Large agricultural estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer and worked by slaves.

• Plantations
• Commune
• Farmstead
• Estate

Revolts by the captives of a ship

• Revolution
• Mutiny
• Riot
• Insurrection