ABeka History 11 - Chapter 1 - People
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- (8) Mayas and Aztecs
- Mexican Indians
- (10) John Calvin
- Protestant reformer who had an important influence on the people who colonized North America.
- (10) Prince Henry the Navigator
- Portuguese prince who founded a navigation school and encouraged exploration in the mid-1400s.
- (10) Bartholomeu Dias
- Portuguese explorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa by 1488.
- (10) Vasco da Gama
- Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa to India, opening a new all-water route to the East in 1498.
- (10) Christopher Columbus
- Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic and accidentally discovered America in 1492.
- (11) Ferdinand and Isabella
- Spanish monarchs who sponsored Columbus' voyage to the New World.
- (12) Amerigo Vespucci
- Italian sailor who was the first to realize that Columbus had discovered a new continent; America is named after him.
- (13) Pedro Cabral
- Portuguese explorer who landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed that land for Portugal in 1500.
- (13) Ponce de Leon
- Spanish explorer who embarked on a search for a fabled fountain of youth in 1513; made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America when he discovered Florida.
- (13) Vasco de Balboa
- Spanish explorer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
- (14) Ferdinand Magellan
- Portuguese sailor employed by the Spanish; embarked on an epic three-year voyage around the world in 1519.
- (14) Hernando Cortes
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico by 1521.
- (14) Montezuma
- Powerful chieftain of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- (14) Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas of Peru by 1533.
- (14) Cabeza de Vaca
- Spaniard who explored southern Texas and parts of New Mexico and Arizona between 1528 and 1536.
- (14) Francisco Coronado
- Spanish explorer who explored what is today the southwestern United States in 1540; a party of his men discovered the Grand Canyon.
- (14) Hernando de Soto
- Spaniard who explored what is today the southeastern United States in 1540; discovered the Mississippi River in 1541.
- (14) Juan Cabrillo
- Portuguese explorer employed by the Spanish; explored the coast of California in 1542.
- (16) Philip II
- King of Spain who sent the "Invicible Armada" against England in 1588.
- (16) Elizabeth I
- Protestant queen of England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada
- (18) Giovanni da Verrazano
- Italian sailor who explored the eastern coast of North America for France in 1524.
- (18) Jacques Cartier
- Frenchman who led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1534-1535.
- (18) Huguenots
- French Protestant who established Charlesfort on the coast of South Carolina and Fort Caroline on the coast of Florida in the 1560s.
- (18) Samuel de Champlain
- called the "Father of New France"; established Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the New World, in 1608.
- (18) Jacques Marquette
- French Jesuit missionary who explored the Central Mississippi River in 1673
- (18) Louis Joliet
- French fur trader who explored the central Mississippi River with Marquette
- (18) Robert Cavelier de la Salle
- French explorer who claimed the entire Mississippi Valley and named it "Louisiana" in 1682.
- (19) Iroquois
- American Indian tribe which did not ally themselves with the French.
- (5) Lief Ericson
- Viking adventurer who landed in North America around A.D. 1000.
- (8) Moors
- Muslims from North America.
- (8) Marco Polo
- Italian merchant who became the first European to travel the length of Asia.
- (8) Incas
- Indians from Peru
- (9) Johann Gutenberg
- German printer who introduced the movable-type printing press in Europe around 1440.
- (9) Martin Luther
- German monk who protested false doctrines of the Roman Catholic church in 1517, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
- (9) John Calvin
- Protestant reformer who had an important influence on the people who colonized North America.