| A | B |
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| explorer | a person who journeys to the unknown for the purpose of discovery |
| Reasons to explore were: | to find gold, silk, and spices, for adventure,for land, find Northen Passage, convert people to Christianity |
| Some countries explorers sailed for were: | Spain, Italy, England, france, Portugal, the Netherlands |
| Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci sailed for: | Spain |
| John Cabot sailed for: | England |
| Giovanni da Verrazano sailed for: | the King of France |
| Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain sailed for: | France |
| Henry Hudson and Adrian Block sailed for: | Dutch East India Company |
| He sailed up the St. Lawrence River to trade with the Native Americans for their furs | Jacques Cartier |
| Set up a fur trade for France and built the 1st permanent settlement along the St. Lawrence. He arrived at a lake now called Champlain | Samuel de Champlain |
| Sailed on the Half Moon into NY Bay, sailed up a waterway as far as Albany-which is the Hudson River | Henry Hudson |
| Built the 1st Dutch settlement on Manhattan(New Amsterdam)1st to go around Long Island. | Adrian Block |
| What did Adrian Block call Long Island? | Lange Eylandt |
| Thought he reached India for gold, silk, and spices. Instead, he found a New World and met the "Indians" | Columbus |
| Captain of the 1st English ship to cross the Atlantic. Traveled along the shore of Long Island | John Cabot |
| Named the continent America so it would end in the letter A like Asia and Africa explorred the northern coast of South America | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Reached the coast of South Carolina and went north. He sailed into NY Bay and was the 1st European to visit NY | Giovanni da Verrazano (Verrazano Bridge) |
