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Learn about the key countries, explorers, and events of European exploration of the Americas, including trade routes, colonization, and the impact of the slave trade.
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This country controlled most of the land trade routes with Asia during the 1400’s (Think of before Columbus)
This explorer was the first European Explorer to reach Asia using an all water route. (He went around Africa and across the Indian Ocean.)
This explorer’s crew were the first people to sail completely around the world.
This is the modern day country in the western hemisphere that Portugal was able to colonize.
This explorer is the person to realize that Columbus did not find a water route to Asia.
This country was most interested in colonizing America during the 1600’s.
This country settled New Amsterdam in what is now New York City.
This country’s seadogs fought the Spanish Armada when they attacked.
The Spanish attacked a French colony called Fort Caroline in what is now this state.
The Spanish divided their American empire into two provinces, New Spain and Peru, that they called this.
This man brought sugar cane to the Americas thinking that it would grow here.
This is what people of Spanish descent born in America were called.
This farming was the main reason for needing more slaves in America during the 1400’s and 1500’s.
This is the percentage of slaves that is thought that didn’t survive a normal trip across the Atlantic.
This is the region of Africa that was most negatively affected by the slave trade.
