For which country did Christopher Columbus claim land?

The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. This transfer, which still continues today, is called the ________.

Historians estimate that in some areas, European diseases wiped out as much as ______ percent of the native population.

After Columbus's voyages, Spain began sending soldiers called ______

In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico with horses and 500 soldiers. There he heard about the powerful _______ who ruled much of Mexico.

By the late 1400s, European explorers in West Africa were trading guns and other goods for ________ captured by African traders.

Peru was conquered by Spanish conquistador _______

One of the first Spanish expeditions into North America was led by a man named ___________

In 1540, a famed conquistador named Francisco Vásquez de Coronado set out from Mexico City with a large expedition and de Niza as his guide. Their goal was to find ____________

A _______ is a village of apartment-like buildings made of stone and adobe rising four and five stories high

Today, _________ is the oldest permanent settlement founded by Europeans in the United States.

Before Coronado’s expedition, there had been more than 100 thriving pueblos in New Mexico. By 1700, only ___ remained.

In 1534, France sent Jacques Cartier to explore the Atlantic coastline of North America. His goal was to find _______.

The first settlement in New France was founded by ________

The French were more interested in furs than farming. They did not try to conquer and enslave Indians as the Spanish had done. Instead, the French and American Indians became ___________.

After founding Quebec, Champlain made friends with nearby Indians, especially the __________.

Like Christopher Columbus, John Cabot mistakenly believed he had landed in _________.

The First English Colony was:

What do we for SURE know happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

During the "Starving Time" in Jamestown, which of the following was NOT available for the settlers to eat?

Wanting peaceful relations with the local Indians, the Dutch company told Minuit that any native peoples on Manhattan Island “must not be expelled with violence or threats but be persuaded with kind words . . . or should be given something.”

Following orders, Minuit offered the island's Indians iron pots, beads, and blankets worth about_______

Peter Stuyvesant had lost his right leg in battle, and he stomped around on a wooden leg decorated with silver nails. People called him ______.

Without firing a shot, the English took over New Netherland and renamed the colony New York because _______.

When the Spanish first journeyed to the island of Hispaniola in 1492, to when Bartolome de Las Casas was there in 1542, de Las Casas states that the population of the Native Americans went from approximately 3 million people, to approximately _____ people in just 50 years.