Columbus’ Voyages
Columbus began his famous voyage across the Atlantic in this year.
What is 1492?
An area controlled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This German monk challenged the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
Spanish colonists forced many Native Americans to work in these places valuable metals.
What are gold and silver mines?
Columbus hoped to reach this continent.
What is Asia?
To travel completely around Earth.
What is to circumnavigate?
Europeans brought this riding animal to the Americas.
What is a Horse?
Luther wrote this famous list of complaints.
What are the 95 Theses?
This priest spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This country paid for Columbus's voyage.
What is Spain?
Payments to the church to reduce punishments for sins.
What are indulgences?
Name one disease Europeans brought to the Americas.
What is Smallpox or influenza?
This invention helped Luther's ideas spread quickly.
What is the Printing press?
This Spanish system allowed settlers to demand Native labor or taxes.
What is the Encomienda?
Columbus's largest ship was named this.
What is the Santa Maria?
A movement in the 16th Century to reform the Catholic Church, which led to the creation of Protestant denominations.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
One crop that traveled from the Americas to Europe.
What is Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, etc?
Luther's followers became known by this name.
Who are Lutherans?
The forced movement of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic was called this.
What is the Atlantic/Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Columbus actually reached islands in this region.
What is the Caribbean?
Columbus founded the first Spanish colony in the Americas on this island.
What is Hispaniola?
European diseases were especially deadly to Native Americans because...
Their immune systems had never been exposed to them.
A recognized branch of Christianity (e.g., Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism).
What is a denomination?
Enslaved Africans were especially used to grow this crop in the West Indies.
What is Sugarcane?