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| What drove the Europeans to colonize the world? | desire for gold, God, and glory |
| Who made one of the first attempts at colonization? | the Vikings who set out from Scandinavia in search of land. They reached as far as Iceland, Greenland, and North America. |
| What European explorer traveled from Venice to China and returned to Italy in 1295? | Marco Polo. The overland route was long, dangerous, costly and controlled by warring tribes |
| Who opened a school to study geography and exploration? | the Portuguese king, Henry the Navigator. In 1441, the first black slaves were brought back to Portugal. |
| Who rounded the southern tip of Africa? | Bartholomew Dias. He called the area the Cape of Storms but this was later changed to the Cape of Good Hope. |
| Who sailed around Africa and landed in Calicut? | Vasco da Gama in 1498 |
| Who claimed Brazil for Portugal? | Pedro Cabral was blown off course and landed in Brazil. |
| What were the Spanish explorers called? | conquistadors |
| Who conquered the Aztec empire of central Mexico? | Hernan Cortes in 1519 |
| Who toppled the mighty Inca Empire? | Francisco Pizarro and another group of conquistadors |
| What wiped out the natives of the New World? | diseases |
| Who first sailed around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan between 1519 and 1522 |
| Why was this voyage significant? | His voyage allowed Spain to claim Asian islands and open the lucrative Asian trade to other European countries |
| What empire did these explorers belong to: Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier, Samual de Champlain, Louis Joliet, Sieur de La Salle? | France |
| Who explored Newfoundland and New England for King Henry VII of England? | John Cabot and his son Sebastian |
| Who set the first settlers to Virginia? | Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 but they returned home. In 1587, another group sent to Roanoke disappeared. |
| Who founded Jamestown? | the Virginia Company in 1606 sent hundreds of settlers and in April 1607, they founded Jamestown. |
| Describe the relationship between the Indians and the settlers? | volatile from the start bu the English were determined to stay. As much as the settlers espoused Christianity, their treatment of the Indians was far removed from a Christain approach. |
| Why did the pilgrims sail to the New World? | Looking to escape the Old World. It was not until the 1630s that they arrived in record numbers. |
| What was the Massachusettts Bay Colony? | included settlements all around Boston. However, religious disagreements forced some to leave and found the colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut |
| Who made Virginia a royal colony? | King James in 1624. With the European economy in shambles, the risks involved in North America now seemed much less. The English moved to America in the Great Migration looking for land and religious freedom. |
| When did the first shipment of slaves arrive at Virginia? | 1619 |
| What guaranteed the success of the colony by 1620? | the sale of tobacco |
| What were some of the consequences of the slave trade? | lost generations, disruption of culture, new weapons and new warfare, insured success of the colonies of the new world |
