A Meeting of Different Worlds

He set up stern rules in Jamestown, which forced the colonists to work if they wanted to eat.

What invention helped navigators track their exact location on the globe when out at sea? 

What is Jacques Marquette best known for exploring?

Explorer credited with being the first European to sail into New York Harbor.    

France’s most important economic activity in North America in the 1600s was this.

Spanish soldiers who defeated Native Americans civilizations in America were know as these.

Explorer whose voyage was the first circumnavigation of the globe.

Before leaving for North America, the Pilgrims first tried to settle here.

This was the first English colony in the Americas that failed.

What was the name of the Native American tribe that was living in the area when Hudson arrived?

What invention helped spread information all around the known world during the Renaissance?

John Cabot thought he had found the Indies, but he really discovered this island off Canada.

Explorer whose voyage explored the St. Lawrence River.

Who was called by the Dutch to “whip New Amsterdam into shape?”

Many of these people hoped to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

Explorer credited with being the first European to sail around Africa to reach India.

The time period of a rebirth or revival of learning in Europe was known as this.

He sailed for both the English and the Netherlands. Has a river and a bay named after him.

This explorer sailed to the southern tip of Africa and then returned home to Portugal.

John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, and Henry Hudson all searched for this.

Which of the following statements about Mansa Musa is true?

Slaves were crammed into small spaces below deck during this.

What cash crop was discovered to grow very well in Jamestown?

Designed the caravel; had triangular sails to catch wind and propel the ship in any direction.

What was the name of the corporation that controlled New Amsterdam?