Study Guide - Exploration and Early Settlements

You should be able to identify the following explorers by knowing what country they sailed for

and where they explored. You don't need to know the exact date they sailed, but you should

know who were the earlier explorers and who came later.

Vasco Nùnez de Balboa	Hernando De Soto
John Cabot	Henry Hudson
Jacques Cartier	Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado	Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus	Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando Cortés	Giovanni da Verrazano
	Amerigo Vespucci

You should be able to identify the following people, places and things

1.	The Northwest Passage	13.	Jamestown
2.	Queen Elizabeth	14.	Virginia Company
3.	Sir Humphrey Gilbert and The Gilbert Patent	15.	John Smith
4.	Sir Walter Raleigh	16.	John Rolfe
5.	Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe	17.	Plymouth Settlement
6.	John White	18.	House of Burgesses*
7.	Sir Richard Grenville	19.	Reformation*
8.	Wanchese and Manteo	20.	Martin Luther*
9.	Ralph Lane	21.	Anglican Church*
10.	Sir Francis Drake	22.	Calvinism*
11.	Thomas Harriot	23.	William Bradford*
12.	The Spanish Armada	24.	Mayflower Compact*

* Not in books and will be explained during class discussions

You should be able to answer questions on any of the following topics:

Jared Diamond's theory of why wealth and power is distributed unequally throughout the world.

You should be able to discuss in detail how Pizarro's conquest of Atalluapa and the Incas at

Cajamarca exemplifies Diamond's thesis.

How the Plymouth Settlement differed from the Jamestown Settlement

The differences and similarities among the various early voyages and settlements:

Amadas-Barlowe, Grenville and Lane, White, Jamestown and Plymouth

The differences and similarities among the Spanish, French and English in their settlement of the New World

Identify where in the New World the early explorers traveled

The role that religious changes in Europe influenced the settlement of the New World

Explorers and Early Settlements Unit

Due Tuesday, August 14

1. Read pp. 70 - 79 in NC book.

2. Use p. 19 in the US book and the reading you just did in the NC book to fill in the Explorers Chart

3.Bring back the Parent Data Sheet

Due Wednesday, August 15

1. Read pp. 16 - 23 in the US book.

2. Read p. 80-83 and 87 - 99 in NC book.

3. Make a Venn diagram of the similarities and differences among the French, Spanish and English settlements.

4. Write out comprehensive definitions of the identification items 1 - 16 on the Study Guide . You may do this as flashcards or on notebook paper. I recommend flashcards so that you can use them to study later, but the choice is yours. Writing a phrase or a single sentence is NOT a comprehensive definition. If I find that your definitions are incomplete, incoherent, illegible, or otherwise incorrect, you will not receive complete credit for your homework even if you plead oh so sweetly that you really, truly tried. I’m a cold-hearted woman. This policy is in effect for the entire year. Learn to live with it.

Due Friday, August 17

1. Write out comprehensive definitions of the identification items 17-24 on the Study Guide .

Monday, August 21

Test on Explorers and Early settlements. You are responsible for everything on the Study Guide