Unit 1 Chapter 2 People

Rene-Robert de la Salle

9 years after Joliet and Marquette he followed the Mississippi River all the way down to Mexico and claimed the Mississippi Valley for France.

Jacques Cartier

A French sailor who led major explorations to North America. Traveled the coast of Canada and claimed a lot of land for France.

Christopher Columbus

Asked King Ferdinand and Queen Isabell for a exploration across the Atlantic Ocean. He promised them great riches, new territory, and Catholic converts. On August 3, 1492, Columbus's three ships set sail. The Nina and the Pinta were caravels.The ships landed on an island in the Bahamas. Columbus thought he had found a new route to Asia. Instead, he had reached another continent that was unknown to him. He continued other explorations.

Henry Hudson

Dutch sailor who set out to find a Northwest Passage. He sailed to present day New York. Came back to North American sailing under the English flag and he found a strait that he thought was a Northwest passage, but led to a bay (named Hudson Bay).

Erik The Red

Had a son named Leif Erikson. He was a viking explorer. Founded the first norse settlement in Greenland.

Marco Polo

He Created a book of his explorations in central China and Asia. This inspired European countries to learn more about Asia and its culture. They had silk and spices that the european countries wanted.

King Henry VIII

He created the Church of England.

Samuel de Champlain

He followed Cartiers paths. He went on explorations to the St. Lawrence River.

Johannes Gutenberg

He indroduced printing to Europe.

John Cabot

He left England and sailed to present day Canada. He sailed up the coast looking for a passage to the Pacific Ocean. He didn't leave to many records of his journeys.

Vasco de Gama

He left Portugal in 1497. He followed the coast of Africa and down to the Cape of Good Hope. He ended up in Southwestern India. Portugal ad won the race to find a sea route to Asia.

Prince Henry the Navigator

He never set out on a exploration himself, but greatly advanced Portugal's explorations. Early 1400's he founded a school of navigation and built an observatory. He paid for explorations, taught better methods of exploring and financed map makers.

Martin Luther

He rejected several practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. He nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Germany.

Peter Stuyvesant

He served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

Bartolomeu Dias

He was a Portugal explorer who went on an exploration from 1487-1488. He found a new sea route to Asia by going around the southern tip of Africa. He called this the Cape of Good Hope. He wanted to continue, but his men didn't due to lack of supplies.

Panfilo de Narvaez

He was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas and he first embarked to Jamaica in 1510 as a soldier. He had two failed expeditions. He died by being carried out to see on a raft.

Hernando Cortes

He was a conquistador who left Cuba to travel to present day Mexico in 1519. He heard of a wealthy land to the west. This was the Aztec empire. They welcomed him and thought he was a god. Cortes captured the emporer and the Aztec fell quickly along with small pox and other disease.

Rodriguez Cabrillo

He was a explorer who explored the west coast of America (California).

John White

He was a talented artist, and 150 colonists resettled Roanoke in the spring of 1587. He set up a colony in North America. He left to go get supplies in England. He came back and nobody was there (it was deserted).

Estevanico

He was one of the first native Africans to reach the present-day continental United States. Enslaved as a youth by the Portuguese. He traveled for eight years with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado across northern New Spain (present-day U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico), reaching Spanish forces in Mexico City in 1536.

Montezuma II

He was the Aztec empires ruler. He was captured by Hernando Cortes in 1519 and the Aztec empire eventually fell.

Sir Francis Drake

He was the most successful and daring ship (Sea Dogs).

Leif Erikson

He was the son of Erik the Red. In 1000 he was sailing from west Norway to Greenland and the winds blew his ships off course to North American coast. They landed on the Labrador Peninsula in present day Canada.

Giovanni da Verrazano

In 1524, he left to find a Northwest passage. He sailed along the east coast of present day America.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

In 1528, he led an expedition with 300 men and landed in Florida. Had multiple problems like sever weather, food shortage and boats crashed. The four survivors of the ship wreak were captured by native americans. After six years of being enslaves they got away and traveled by foot. De Vaca finally got back to Europe and wrote about his experiences.

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

In 1540 he set out to explore the North American Southwest. He wanted to find the legendary Seven Cities of Gold that were rumored to exist there. His expedition went through present-day New Mexico and Arizona, where a group of his men discovered the Grand Canyon.

Sir Walter Raleigh

In 1584 he sent an expedition that landed in present-day Virginia and North Carolina. Raleigh named the entire area Virginia.The following year, Raleigh sent another group to found a colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina.

Taino Indians

They were in the Caribbean Sea at the time when Christopher Columbus' arrived to the New World.

Virginia Dare

This was the grandaughter of John White and was the first person born in the colony in North America.

Malintzin

Women who helped Hernando Cortes conquer the Aztec empire. She though he was a god.

Pope Alexander VI

from Spain, created a line (Line Of Demarcation) that separated the non-Christian land that Spain and Portugal explored/found.

Peter Minuit

he bought present day New York City for the Dutch from the Native Americans

King John II

king of Portugal in 1364

Martin Waldseeuller

mapmaker who made the first map of the word with the "new world" included

Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette

missonaries who set out to find the great river and they found it and traveled down it until present day Arkansas

conquistador

soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabell

King and Queen of Spain from 1479-1516. The =y sponsored most all of the Spanish explorations.

King Manual of Portugal

King of Portugal from 1495-1521. He set many Portugal explorers including Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, ect.

Hernando de Soto

Let him explore the Gulf of Mexico and in 1539 they landed in present day Florida. Led expedition up north then headed west and he discovered the Mississippi River in 1541.

Bartolome de las Casas

One of the first settlers in America and advocated using African slaves instead of Native Americans

Ferdinand Magellan

Portugese explorer who left in 1519 and found a route to the Pacific Ocean (Magellan Strait).

Queen Elizabeth the I of England

Ruled by herself. She had Sea Dogs who were tons of little ships to defeat.

Amerigo Vespucci

Sailed across Atlantic to present day South America in 1501. He was now the first one to think that this land was not Asia but a "New Land". A map maker called it "America" in honor of his name.

Juan Ponce de Leon

Spanish explorer who landed on Puerto Rico on 1508. By 1511 he claimed all of Puerto Rico to Spain (called it San Juan).

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Spanish explorer who left in 1513 to sailed to the "new world" and landed on present day Panama. He also went around Panama and was the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean.

Francisco Pizzaro

Spanish explorer who set out to Peru in 1534 in search of riches. He came across the Inca Empire and they though he was a god who had promised to come back that year. Pizzaro captured and killed the emporer and eventually took over the whole empire.