Three Cultures Meet

The land areas labeled with an A were claimed by

• England

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

The land areas labeled with an B were claimed by

• England

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

The land areas labeled with an C were claimed by

• England

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

The first humans to arrive in the Americas came from

(a)  

Farming allowed American Indians to settle in _ villages

(a)  

Native Americans established different cultures including fashion, diet, types of dwellings because their environments were different and they had to adapt in order to survive.

• True

• False

This Portuguese ruler who sponsored the first voyages that mapped the West Coast of Africa was

• King John II
• Prince Manuel I

• King Ferdinand II
• Prince Henry

Which two countries claimed most of the land in Central and south America and led to the discovery of the New World?

• United States and Canada
• Spain and Portugal
• France and England
• Germany and Italy

Spanish priests came to the Americas to convert people to Catholicism, while Spanish Conquistadors came to

• establish trade routes
• search for gold and other riches
• explore new lands
• build schools

1513, from Spain, Man in search of gold. He crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Once there he claimed the ocean and all the land that it touched for Spain. 

• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa
• Francisco Pizarro