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  • 1st to travel west searching for a quicker route to Asia
    Cabot
    Vespucci
    Magellan
    Christopher Columbus
  • Why did Columbus sail westward across the ocean?
    A. to find an all water route to Asia
    B. To find a shorter route to the Great Lakes
    C. to prove the world was round
  • Frenchman sailed for France and founded the trading post of Quebec
    Cabot
    Samuel de Champlain
    Cartier
    Hudson
  • sailed for the Dutch and claimed the land of New York for the Dutch
    Cartier
    Vasco Da Gama
    Champlain
    Hudson
  • Who was the Aztec ruler?
    Motezuma
  • What were the three motivations for Euopean Exploration? (Write out all three)
    God, Glory Gold
  • The French started new colonies in what is today....
    Asia
    North America
    South America
    Africa
  • This Country found the area of present day Newfoundland Canada
    England
  • New Netherlands will eventually become known as what?
    New York
  • What Dutch settlement becomes known as the present day city of Albany?
    Fort Orange
  • believing that you are superior to someone else based on race
    racism
  • 1st to realize the Americas were not Asia but a new land
    Amerigo Vespucci
  • Conquered the Aztecs in Mexico
    Hernando Cortes
  • Italian who sailed for England and claimed Newfoundland for England
    John Cabot
  • Frenchman who sailed for France and sailed up the St. Lawrence River
    Jacques Cartier
    John Cabot
    Magellan
    Henry Hudson
  • 1st given credit for sailing around the world even though he himself never made it
    Cabot
    Ferdinand Magellan
    Dias
    Cartier
  • This country was the first to discover the area of present day New York
    Dutch
  • Conquered the Incas in Peru
    Francisco Pizarro
  • This country explored the majority of Central and South America
    Spain
  • What are the two Dutch settlements?
    New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
  • This country was the first to descover the St Lawrence River
    France
  • conquerors of land
    Conquistadors
  • people who were sent to the knew would to convert people to christianity
    missionaries
  • What killed 90-95% of the Native American population in the New World?
    Diseases
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