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GUIDED READING
A Place Called Mississippi
Chapter 3: The European Period, 1540 - 1798
Section 1
Spanish Exploration
Directions:
Use the information from pages 72 - 74 to complete the
following.
1. Prince Henry the Navigator conducted a special school in Portugal for
________________ and __________________ and helped launch the Great Age of
Exploration.
2. Christopher ___________________ had studied geography and
__________________ (the art and technique of making maps and charts) in Portugal
under Prince Henry.
3. He [Columbus] was convinced that the world was _______________ and he persuaded
the King of ________________ to provide him with three ships for his
________________ voyage in ____________.
4. Columbus was _________________ in his __________________ that the world was
round, but he did not know about the ____________________ Hemisphere, which the
Europeans would call the ___________ _________________.
5. In the early 1540s, a ____________________ expedition led by Hernando ______
________________ trekked across the land that would become the state of
_____________________.
6. This _________________________ (a journey for a specific purpose, such as
exploration) was the beginning of what historians call the ___________________
period, or the __________________ period, of American history.
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7. The great powers of Europe ––– ______________________, ___________________,
and _____________________ ––– were locked in a two-hundred-year struggle to
____________________ the ___________ ________________.
8. De Soto dreamed of leading his own expedition and finding even greater
__________________ than those found among the ______________ peoples of South
America.
9. After de Soto's ___________________ to ____________ any ___________________,
the southern woodlands were undisturbed for another 130 years.
10. Eventually, the great __________________ of Europe realized that the ____________
treasures of the New World were not silver and gold.
11. More ___________________ could be made from __________________ and
___________________ with the ___________________ (geographical areas politically
controlled by a distant country) that could be established in this _____________
_______________ that Columbus had discovered.
12. As long as these European colonies were located along the fringes or on the
____________________ of ______________ America, there was minimal contact or
___________________ among the nations.
13. But as the ________________________ began to move ________________ and the
nations started ____________________ the _____________ territory, the rivalry
___________________ (generated) a series of colonial ____________.
14. These wars would ultimately result in the ___________________ of the
_____________________ powers from North America and the emergence of the
_________________ ____________________.