Unit 2 Study Guide- Explorers

A settlement far away from the country that rules it

• log

• colony

• city

• state

A water route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans believed to flow through N America

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian exchange

• Panama Canal

• vikings

a written record of a voyage, experiment, or other endeavor

• table of contents

• Columbian exchange

• entry

• log

seafaring traders and explorers from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

• Mongols

• Vikings

• Europeans

• Persians

movement of people, plants, animals, germs, and ways of life across the Atlantic Ocean following the voyages of Columbus

• Northwest Passage

• transmission

• Columbian Exchange

the first known European to explore North America

• Leif Ericson

• Jacques Cartier

• John Cabot

• Columbus

Controversial figure who was once credited with discovering America?

• Leif Ericson

• Columbus

• Magellen

• Henry Hudson

French Explorer who discovered present day Canada

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Eric the Red

• John Cabot

The Americas are named for the Italian explorer

• Mariano Rivera

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Columbus

Venetian explorer who first explored North America since the Vikings

• John Cabot

• Samuel de Champlain

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Henry Hudson