| A | B |
|---|
| Samuel de Champlain | promoted French fur trade; built trading post named Quebec |
| Martin Luther | in 1517 challenged practices of the Catholic church |
| Henry Hudson | 1) English who sailed for the Dutch - searched the Hudson River and Hudson bay; 2) his crew rebelled and sent him adrift; 3) he never found the Northwest Passage but mapped and explored many parts of North America |
| Verrazano and Cartier | from France; searched for the Northwest Passage but never found it |
| John Cabot | found Newfoundland but not the Northwest Passage |
| Las Casas | priest who journeyed to Spain to ask the King to protect the Indians; said to bring Africans to America as slaves because they did not catch European diseases and were used to hard work |
| Robert de LaSalle | in 1682 he completed the journey to the Gulf of Mexico on the Mississippi and named it Louisiana |
| Francisco Pizarro | invaded Incan Empire and ended up controlling much of the Incan Empire |
| Montezuma | Aztec emperor; invited whites into Tenochtitlan |
| Europe | at one time people thought it and Africa and Asia were the only lands on Earth |
| Middle East | where the Holy Land is |
| Asia | people wanted to get there to trade |
| East Indies | Columbus planned to go there to trade |
| Mali | only one of the several advanced states that rose in West Africa |
| West Indies | where Columbus landed when he tried to get to the East Indies |
| Middle Ages | from 500-1350; people did not know the world was round |
| Renaissance | means "rebirth"; a burst of learning in medicine, astronomy, and chemistry |
| Johannes Gutenberg | invented the printing press |
| Mansa Musa | ruler of Mali who traveled from Mali across North Africa, to Egypt, and to the Middle East |
| Queen Isabella | funded Columbus to go exploring |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish leader who fought and destroyed most of Tenochtitlan for power and riches in 1519 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1)sea captain who sailed across the Pacific, going around the tip of Southern South America, 2) first to sail around the world and prove it was round and that the New Lands were not Asia, 3) was killed in a battle with the locals in the Philippines |
| Vaso Nunez de Balboa | claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain |
