Important+People

Important People


 * Chapter 1**
 * Erik the Red and Lief Erikson**
 * led the Vikings in 1000 AD
 * landed in New Foundland

Vaso Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Ponce de Leon Fransico Pizzaro Fransico Corondo Hernando cortez Montezuma John Cabot Cartier Robert LaSalle Lord De La Warr John Rolfe
 * Marco Polo**
 * traveled to China and sparked Eruopean interest in forgien trade
 * Christopher Columbus**
 * convinced **Isabellla** and **Ferdinand** to fund his expedtions
 * influneced system of market, capital, and technoolgy where Africa would provied labor and the new world provided raw materials
 * "Columbian exchange"
 * pacific ocean and isthmus of Panama
 * first to circuumnavigate the globe
 * looking for fountain of youth touched and names Florida
 * concurs incan empire and creates influx of gold and silver in spain creating inflation
 * found the Pueblo Indians in Current Day southwest
 * conquered the aztecs
 * Aztec King
 * touch the coast of present US
 * went into the mouth of St. Lawerence river
 * sailed down Mississippe and claimed Lousiana
 * arrived to alleviate suffering in the New World
 * later led wars against the Indians
 * married Pochahontas

Chapter 13 William H. Crawford
 * Ran against Clay and Jackson