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4. The Hans Claesz Company in 1613 offered the American Indians twice as much for their beaver pelts as Adriaen Block did. A few weeks after Block's boat Tijger burnt, his crew mutinied and many sailed away on the Hans Claesz boat called the Nachtegael. The mutineers sailed to West Indian waters where they became what ?
5. Italian explorers included Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Tonti and Kino. What other Italian explorer was supposedly the first white man to see Manhattan ?
10. What magical item that Henry Hudson traded with the Indians for their tobacco and furs left the Indians in awe ?
12. William Dampier became a pirate explorer that sailed to the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Australia, New Guinea, southeast Asia, and the South Seas. This British pirate afterwards became a writer but died a pauper. Before turning pirate what did William Dampier make ?
13. Adrian Block was the first European to sail into Long Island Sound realized that Manhattan and Long Island were indeed islands. Adrian Block besides being a Dutch explorer was also an ?
15. The Hopewell was Henry Hudson's first boat. What was the name of his final boat that he sailed to the New World on in 1611?
17. The British privateer and explorer Sir Francis Drake, also dabbled in slave trading. He was the 2nd explorer who sailed around the world. He was set fire at sea after dying of what ?
19. Because of an explorer named John, England claimed fishing rights, after he explored Newfoundland, Nova Scotia & Labrador. This explorer reached American first, which let England claim the whole east coast of North America. His son Sebastian was also on his boat as well. What was this explorers last name ?
20. In the 1500's, what did French and English fleets come to the New World for, before sailing home ?
21. Wind and ice stopped both the 1st and 2nd trips (1607 and 1608) of Henry Hudson. Both trips by Hudson went north and then east with the same crew. What was the name of the Company that hired Hudson for his first two voyages ?
22. After hearing about Henry Hudsons journey in 1610, the ship St. Pieter (or de Hoope) sailed the Hudson on a secretive mission to trade directly with the natives (circumventing the French monopoly). What explorer who traded furs with Russia sailed the ship that was the first Dutch trading expedition to the Hudson Bay ?
24. Most historians give Christian Hendricksen from the Netherlands the #1 spot as the founder of NYC, overlooking one black Spanish trader. Hendrick Christiaensen was the captain of one of the three Dutch ships that landed in NYC in 1613. What was the name of Hendrick Christiaensen's Dutch ship that returned Adrian Block to the Netherlands ?
26. Henry Hudson did not follow instructions and headed for North America between the 37th and 42nd parallels. The 37th parallel was the Chesapeake Bay, what was the Cape in North America that the 42nd parallel equated to ?
27. Adrian Block's boat caught fire while docked in a NYC bay and stranded Block and his crew in Manhattan for a winter. They survived the winter of 1613-1614 thanks to the Indians. Tijger (Tiger) was the name of his boat that burnt and stranded them for the winter. What was the name of the boat he built, to leave NYC the next Spring ?
28. The Dutch East India Company paid $320 for Hudson's third trip(1609) north and then east, but icy wind made Hudson try going west this third time. On his fourth trip Hudson got stuck in the ice for the Winter. Most of his crew mutinied and left him to die with his son and 6 other supporters. What English merchant financed the disastrous fourth trip of Henry Hudson (1610)?
29. What French explorer and navigator mapped most of the East coast of Northern America before 1607 ?
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1. Lambert van Tweenhuysen and a few other merchants created a company called the Van Tweenhuysen Company. These merchants in 1611 sent a ship call Saint Pieter to the New World. A Captain named Cornelis Rijser took this ship to the New World with most likely Adriaen Block and Hendrick Christiaensz as passengers. All these merchants were of what religion ?
2. Christopher Newport was an English privateer who transported colonists and supplies to Jamestown five times. English naval officer John Hawkins (1532 - 1595) was a privateer slave trader. The English navigator named John Davis, looked for the Northwest Passage from 1585 to 1587. What English privateer named Martin explorered northeastern North America searching for a Northwest Passage ?
3. Jean Allefonsce (born Jean Fonteneau ) visited the French fort of Norumbega in 1542, it could have been off the Hudson, but most historians think it was the Penobscot River. The French fort and fur traders village of Norumbega was on a small island in a fresh water lake, this pinpoints the Collect Pond as its most likely NYC location. Allefonsce claimed for almost 90 miles past its mouth that the river of Norumbega was what ?
6. A black Spanish trader from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic and Haiti) was the first non indian merchant in NYC. This mulatto was a former crewman from the boat Jonge Tobias who traded and lived among the NYC natives in 1612 without support of a harbor ship. According to Dutch explorer Captain Adrian Block, what was the name of the first non native to live in Manhattan?
7. The Navigator, dreamer, scholar, monk and crusader called Prince Henry was not English, where was he from ?
8. What was the name of Henry Hudson's ship that first brought him to the New World ?
9. Who was the Captain of the Jonge Tobias, who sabotaged Adrian Blocks Beaver trading with the Natives, by offering them three times more than what Block was trading ?
11. Adriaen Block's ship supposedly caught fire right off a bay off the Hudson river by the World Trade Center site or down by Battery Park. Most historians insist that the plot of the former Trade Towers was the location where the Tiger burnt, and that the shipmates built huts by 39-41 Broadway, but I disagree. A bigger and easier managed bay where his docked boat could have caught fire, was off the quieter East River (between Dover and James streets) at the head of the stream that flowed from the Collect Pond. Before NYC's widening of its coast through landfill, Block's boat the Tiger could have been the source for the name of this steam. What was this streams name ?
12. What explorer named Cornelius (who a NJ cape is named after) got the monopoly from Holland for trading furs with Hendrick Christiansen and Adrian Block ?
14. The Black Portuguese navigator Esteban Gomez was exploring for Charles 5 of Spain in 1525. He reached Florida in August 1525. In Maine or Nova Scotia he filled his boat up with natives which he sold as slaves in San Lucar when he returned on Aug. 21st 1525. Besides San Antonio, what else did Esteban Gomez call the Hudson river ?
16. In 1524, Giovanna Di Verrazzano became the first European to explore the New York Harbor. What was Verrazanos name for Narragansett Bay ?
18. The publication and widespread circulation of letters about what Italian explorer, informed the European public of the New World ?
23. In 1611, Henry Hudson was cast adrift in a small boat with no supplies and with several supporters (and the sick) and John his Cabin Boy. What relation was the Cabin Boy to Henry Hudson ?
25. In 1611 Adrian Block, sailed back to Holland with two captured indians. One captured native was named Valentine what was the other native's name who killed Hendrick Christaensz on the Hudson River abord the Swarte Beer in 1619 ?
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