Unit 1 people/ explorers

-Spanish monk.
-Wrote letters to the king telling how Indians were mistreated.
-Wrote "A short account of the destruction of the Indies"

-Jon Cabot born in Italy.
-Landed in new Finland, planted a flag and left.
-Got a fleet of ships, colonists, never made it

-A famous travel writer & mapmaker
-Traveled w/ Columbus
-continents named after him

-Told Spain about how the Portuguese found the tip of Africa
-Set to sail around the world
-Got killed in Phillipino battle
-First to make it across the world

Killed by his people, conquered Incas

-Conquered Aztecs
-Aztecs thought he was their demigod

-European responsible for founding the oldest continuously occupied European settlement
-First to see the Pacific
beheaded by Pizarro

-Wanted a new beginning
-Lands in Florida, thinks its an island gets into fight and killed by an arrow

-While looking for the "city of gold" he was one of the first to see the grand canyon

-Traveled through the south
-Created the border with forts/missions like the Alamo

-Founded Santa Fe
-introduced horses and cattle to the Indians
-Driven out by Pueblo Indians during the Pueblo revolt

-sailed for the French
-sought Northwest passage to Asia
-Traded with the Indians and began the Fur trade

-Discovered St. Lawrance river
-Allied w/ the Indians

-French protestant/ Huguenot
-Builds a fort in Florida which Spain destroyed
-First colonial war for empires
-Killed by Spanish

-First French settlement
-Continued alliance w/ Algonquin & Heron
became enemies with Iriquois