Chapter 3 Flashcards
What area of North America did Jacques Cartier explore?
St Lawrence River
Cartier claimed the St Lawrence River for what country?
France
What area of North America did Henry Hudson explore?
Part of New York and Canada (Hudson Bay and Hudson River)
What area of North America did Juan Ponce de Leon explore?
Puerto Rico, Florida, southwestern United States
What country did Juan Ponce de Leon claim land for?
Spain
What area of North America did Hernando de Soto explore?
Peru and Tampa Bay in the southwestern half of the United States
What country did Hernando de Soto claim land for?
Spain
What area of North America did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explore?
Mexico, Florida, southwest US
What country did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado claim land for?
Spain
What are three obstacles that early European explorers faced?
They had poor navigation tools;
unknown dangers such as Indians, bad weather, and disease,
they needed a strong, fast ship,
and they needed money for the food, crew, and ship
Describe Christopher Columbus’s expedition in 1492
He found some gold, animals and plants, tainos which were Indians, claimed land, and also found a supposed route to Asia from the west.
What area did Columbus think you’d reached in 1492? How do we know he was wrong?
He thought he had reached Asia, but Balboa heard that there was an ocean to the west that he called the Pacific Ocean, and Magellan or at least his crew circumnavigated the earth and went all around the earth and found that Asia was farther back
How were the expeditions of Cartier and Hudson different from most of the earlier expeditions to the Americas?
They were they explored the north, claimed land for France, England, and Holland instead of Spain, and at least Hudson’s was sponsored by trading companies instead of kings and Queens
What were the main goals of early expeditions to the Americas?
To find riches gold, silk, spices, to gain frame, newland, and to spread religion
In 1494, which two countries divided the Americas into the lands that each could claim?
Spain and Portugal
Why would an explorer from one country agree to an expedition in search of new land etc for another country?
If their own country was not willing to pay for an expedition they might get paid by a company from a different country and also, sometimes they would go on expeditions just for adventure or to gain fame
What was the Northwest Passage and why did so many countries sponsor expedition searching for it?
A supposed route to Asia that did not actually exist and it was meant for trading page in a much shorter cheaper way than the current routes
What were the costs for going on an expedition?
costs of actual money for food, crew, ship, and supplies,
risking your life,
the possibility of failing and not finding anything
and being in debt.
What were the benefits for going on an expedition?
They could enjoy it, they could find new trade routes, spread religion, gain new land power and riches of gold, silk, spices, and furs, and also gain fame
Which nation did Hernando Cortes conquer?
Aztecs
Which period showed learning, art, and something else?
The Renaissance
