The Discovery of Culture
This time period in the 1400s–1500s was a rebirth of art, learning, and science in Europe.
What is the renaissance?
This explorer proved the world was round by sailing around it.
What is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Spanish used these weapons to help conquer the native populations.
What is steel swords, crossbows and guns?
This person came to Mexico in 1518 looking for gold and land.
What is Hernán Cortés?
These are routes across the ocean used for trade between countries.
What are trade routes?
Europeans explored the seas to find these and get rich.
What are gold and silver?
This was dominated by the British and the Eastern Seaboard would become the Thirteen Colonies.
What is The Eastern Seaboard?
This place depends on their silver that they mined, the silver was usually sent across the Atlantic ocean and also the Pacific Ocean.
What is South America?
Jacques Cartier explored this place.
What is Gulf of Saint Lawrence?
This man sailed west on the boats Niña, Pinta, and Santa María.
What is Christopher Columbus?
In 1535 Pizarro found this city, now it is Peru’s capital.
What is Lima?
These people founded missions which is a place used to spread Christianity.
What are missionaries?
This is a way to organize all the silver and labor they mined.
What is encomienda?
The workers were enslaved Africans, they worked on the sugar plantations, which is like a farm, where they grew this.
What is coffee, sugar, and tobacco?
In the sugar colonies British found these places produce a lot of sugar.
What is Jamaica and Barbados?
The explorers in the “new world” came looking for this, creating a much larger culture exchange (Between Europe and the Americas).
What is weath and power?
English exploration of North America did not begin to increase until this time.
What is the mid- 1500's?
The person who controlled the labs was called this, they were also supposed to protect and care for them but they were actually treated like slaves.
What is encomendero?
Some negative effects of this exchange were these.
What are diseases?
Jamestown was established on this day.
What is May 14, 1607?
This changed Europe and the Americas by connecting them through trade and exchange.
What is the Colombian exchange?
Many routes to Asia were controlled by these people.
What are the Muslims?
South America mostly depended on this, which they mined.
What is silver?
Cortés marched to this place, which was the Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The first wave in the Spanish in the Americas were these people.
What are the Conquistadors?