Exploration

The business of buying and selling or bartering commodities

• negotiation
• exchange
• trade

This country claimed Florida, Texas, and California. They also built Catholic missions on the land they claimed.

• Netherlands

• Spain
• France
• England

An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492. He had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, under the patronage of the king and queen, Ferdinand and Isabella, hoping to find a westward route to India.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Christopher Columbus
• Marco Polo
• Ferdinand Magellan

A term referring to the exchange of ideas, food, and diseases between European and people from the Americas following 1492.

• European Exchange
• Atlantic Trade
• New World Interaction
• Columbian Exchange

Explorers wanted to find trade routes to China, India, and Southeast Asia

• Final Reason for Exploration

• Initial Reason for Exploration

Historical sea passage of the North American continent. It represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Archipelago of what became Canada.

• Northwest Passage
• Arctic Route
• Polar Path

Having a high degree of resistance to a disease

• Immune

• Resilience
• Susceptibility
• Vulnerability

This country claimed land in the New World to profit from fur trading.

• Netherlands

• England
• Spain
• France

These two countries claimed land along the Atlantic coast.

• Spain and Portugal
• Germany and Russia
• Italy and Greece
• Dutch and English

Reasons include wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory, and new trade routes to Asia through the Northwest Passage.

• All Reasons to Explore

• No Reasons to Explore