Europeans Explore the Americas

First European to sail from Portugal to India

1^st person to suggest and write that South America was a new continent

A famous trade route across Central Asia during the ancient times was called the?

Explored and mapped the Mississippi River and claimed the region for France

Introduction of a new element into something

Conquered the Aztec Empire

To go against the teachings of the Church

Martin Luther's 95 Theses nailed on a church's door started?

1^st European to cross the Mississippi River

Founded Quebec City, Governor of New France

Explored New York City area, a river, and a bay in northern Canada

Belief in one God

Teach someone to accept a set of beliefs

Explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed Canada for France

Native people of a culture

Famous doctor/astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory

Famous painter who painted The Last Supper

First European to “discover” the Pacific Ocean

What main time era was Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC written in?

Conquerors

One of the most famous sea dogs was?

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City?

Launched a cataclysmic change in the Catholic religion

Founder of Islam

Started a settlement called Vinland in Canada

A group of people and animals traveling together

Invented the printing press in 1450s

Explored the Southwest US and discovered the Grand Canyon

Peasant farmers

Founder of Judaism

System in medieval Europe in which people worked & fought for nobles

Sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Famous astronomer who was found guilty of heresy and forced to recant

Founder of the world’s largest religion

The feudal house

A tremendous upheaval

A freeing from blame or guilt

Sculptor who sculpted Pieta and painted the Sistine Chapel

Make full use of and get benefit from a resource or situation

Conquered the Inca Empire in present-day Peru

Italian who traveled eastward on the Silk Road through China

1^st European to sail around the cape at South Africa into the Indian Ocean

An instrument used to help captains navigate the seas

1^st European to “discover” and name Florida for Spain

Which famous Renaissance man was convicted of heresy?

Proposed the geocentric theory

He is credited with being the first man to sail around the world

Is credited with “discovering” the New World because he wrote about it