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GUIDED READING
Oklahoma: Our History Our Home
Chapter 3: European Quest for New Land
Section 1
Early European Explorers
Directions:
Use the information from pages 68 - 81 to complete the
following.
1. Scandinavian ___________________ were possibly the first __________________
to visit the Americas.
2. This corresponds with the time ____________ ____________________ attempted
to establish Vinland in the same area.
3. Somewhat later, in the 1400s, several European countries set their sights on finding
new _______________ routes to the __________________ (eastern Asia).
4. Trade between ________________ and ________________ had been going on for
centuries.
5. Mediterranean ports such as _______________ and _______________________
and a land route known as the ______________ _______________ were important
in this exchange of goods.
6. The long journey involved a number of ______________________, or traders who
bought goods from producers and then sold them to other traders or consumers.
7. The _______________ of moving the items from the Far East to Europe were high.
8. A shorter _____________ would lower prices, and it would provide an edge in the
constant struggle for world ________________.
9. ______________ _________________ was a merchant born in Venice, Italy, about
1254.
10. At the age of _____________________, he traveled with his father to the Far East,
an adventure that lasted _______________-_____________ years.
11. In 1299, Polo ___________________ the __________________ of his journey to
the writer Rustichello of Pisa.
12. The book ___________________ _____ ________________ _________________
was widely published and translated into many languages.
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13. During the early 1400s, __________________ __________________ the
____________________ of Portugal sent ships along the western coast of Africa in
an unsuccessful search for an eastern passage to the _________________
__________________.
14. ______________________ ____________________, an Italian sea captain,
believed that the best route to the Far East lay to the _____________.
15. Like other experienced navigators of his day, Columbus believed that Earth was
__________________.
16. Columbus tried to get support for his _________________ (a journey for a specific
purpose, such as exploration) from the rulers of _________________,
____________________, and __________________.
17. Finally, _____________ _________________ and __________
__________________ of Spain agreed to finance his voyage.
18. Columbus gathered crews for the three ships that would make the journey: the
_______________, the _______________, and the _____________
_______________.
19. Finally on __________________ _______, ___________, the ships landed on an
island Columbus named _________ ________________.
20. Today we call this land east of Florida the _________________ ______________.
21. Because Columbus believed he was just off the coast of India, he called the people
living there _________________.
22. Italian Giovanni Caboto, better known as ____________ _____________, also
sailed west but under an _________________ flag.
23. In 1497, he landed at ______________________ in present-day Canada.
24. The ocean trade route from Europe to India was finally discovered by
_______________ _______ ______________, a 20-year old Portuguese navigator.
25. In 1499, __________________ _________________, an Italian navigator, sailed
along the coast of South America and became convinced that it was a new
continent.
26. His journals caught the attention of the German _______________________
(mapmaker) Martin Waldseemuller, who on his 1507 world map named the new land
_______________ in honor of Vespucci.
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27. In 1519, ___________________ ____________________, a Portuguese explorer
who sailed for Spain, set sail with five ships.
28. It was the first expedition to circumnavigate, or circle, the ______________.
29. Although Magellan did reach the _________ _____________ by sailing west, his
route was long and dangerous.
30. Europeans wanted a shorter route. They hoped to find a ____________ route to
Asia through the North American continent.
31. They called the hoped-for route the _______________________
___________________.
32. In 1513, Juan _________________ ___ ______________ landed at what is now
Florida, and Vasco Nunez de _________________ crossed the Isthmus of Panama
to reach the ___________________ ___________________.
33. (An _________________ is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.)
34. In 1519, the daring _____________________________ (Spanish conqueror)
____________________ _______________________ landed in present-day
Mexico.
35. By 1521, he had conquered the _____________ Indians, killed their ruler
____________________, and claimed a treasure of gold and silver for
________________.
36. Reports of the “Seven Cities of Cibola,” where houses were made of
_________________ and __________________, led to another expedition.
37. Mexican Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza appointed Francisco Vasquez _______
_____________ to conquer the area north of _____________________ in 1540.
38. They encountered Zuni, Pueblo, and Hopi villages, often resulting in
___________________ (minor, short-term fights), but no gold.
39. _________________ Juan de Padilla had traveled with the Coronado expedition
as an ordained ________________.
40. Padilla chose to return to the Wichita village (Quivara) to continue
___________________ efforts among the Indians.
41. A _________________________ is one who is sent on a religious mission.
42. Another Spanish navigator and conquistador who had read Cabeza de Vaca’s
report was ________________________ _______ _________________.
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43. DeSoto hoped to be the first to find the __________________ and
________________.
44. The ______________of gold brought Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate to the land
of __________________ in 1601.
45. Oñate was charged with settling _________ _________________ in 1595, mainly
to spread _____________________, but many of his group hoped to find silver
and get rich.
46. This group of explorers, missionaries, and colonists traveled up the ______
________________ ________________, or ______________ _____________
______________, from Mexico.
47. While the Spanish came to the New World looking for silver and gold, the
________________ came looking for ___________ and _____________.
48. Eventually the French founded _______________ on the St. Lawrence River as a
________________ in 1608.
49. (A ________________ is a group of people who settle in another land but who are
still under the rule of their native land.)
50. France wanted to expand its trading area in the New World by finding the
_____________________ _______________________.
51. Louis __________________ and Father Jacques ________________________, a
Jesuit missionary, led an expedition down the ______________________
______________ in 1673.
52. Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de ________________ had a trading post in
________________________.
53. He hoped to establish a string of trading posts down the _____________________
_____________________.
54. LaSalle claimed all the land drained by the Mississippi River for French King
____________ ____________, naming it _____________________ (which means
“Land of Louis”) and marking it with a log cross.
55. In 1719, Jean Baptiste Bernard _____ ______ _______________ established a
trading post along the ____________ ________________.
56. He bought the site from the chief of the _________________ (a tribe in the Caddo
Confederacy) for _______________ pistols and some merchandise.
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57. La Harpe and a small party explored much of eastern _____________________.
58. Chief Touacara and other __________________ chiefs welcomed a
______________ ________________________ with the French.
59. The Indians wanted __________ and ______________________ to defend their
villages and such trade goods as metal ______________, cloth and woven
__________________, ___________________, and beads.
60. An _________________ is a close association to advance the common interests of
the parties, in this case trade.
61. John Cabot’s 1497 voyage to the ___________ _________________ gave
_______________ a claim to North America.
62. Believing that the country that _________________ North America would become
even more powerful, England began settling the east coast in the 1600s.
63. By the end of the 1600s, England had ________________ colonies along the
_________________ Coast.