1. Chapter One: Converging Cultures
Section Five: Europe encounters America.
A. The Vikings
a. The first Europeans to settle in America were the _____________.
b. These people were from _____________________.
c. They made settlements in America around the year ___________ A.D.
d. However, the Vikings’ settlements did not _____________.
B. Christopher Columbus
a. Christopher Columbus was an ________________ born navigator.
b. He believed that Europe and _________ were not all that far apart and
that he could get there by sailing ____________.
c. However, no rulers were willing to financially ______________ Columbus’
journey.
d. Then in 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of _____________
agreed to sponsor Columbus.
e. Columbus was given three ships, the Nina, the _________ and the Santa Maria.
f. After more than two months, Columbus finally reached the Caribbean
(San _____________________).
g. Believing he had reached India, he called the people he saw
_________________.
h. He returned to America the next year bringing back ______________,
and Native Americans.
i. Columbus returned to America ___________ more times and explored
other Caribbean islands.
j. He never knew he had discovered a new __________________.
C. Spain Claims America
a. By the _____________, Spain was eager to make colonies in America.
b. However, Portugal also wanted to _____________ parts of America.
c. To prevent war, the two countries came to an _________________:
The Treaty of Tordesillas.
d. The treaty drew a line of demarcation down the ______________ of
the Atlantic Ocean.
e. Spain would get everything to the ____________ of the line; Portugal
would get everything to the ______________.

2. f. Italian explorer _________________ Vespucci concluded that this new
land was not Asia, but a new continent.
g. Therefore, the new land was later named for him in his honor.
(____________)
h. Ferdinand Magellan discovered a ____________ (small stretch of water
connecting two larger bodies of water) in Southern South America.
i. He managed to ________________ his way through the strait to the
ocean on the other side.
j. He named this ocean “The Pacific”, which means ______________.
k. His crew continued their _________________ all the way back to
Spain.
l. They became the first people to circumnavigate (go all the way
______________) the world.
D. The Columbian Exchange
a. The ______________ of animals, plants, ideas and diseases from
Europe to the Americas and the Americas to Europe.
CHUNK #4 pg. 44. From Europe to America, 1st
and 2nd
paragraph. History Frame –
Answer the following questions from the passage you have read.
Setting Where and When? –
Characters Who were the key players? –
Plot What happened? –
Outcome What were the results?
1. Examples from Europe to the Americas;
-Wheat, _______________, firearms, small pox.
2. Examples from Americas to Europe;
-Potatoes, __________________, tobacco, corn
b. Millions of Native Americans died from _________________ brought
over by Europeans.