Early Explorers
He started a school for sailors and sponsored many voyages down the west coast of Africa.
Prince Henry the Navigator
The emperor of the Aztecs was;
Montezuma
Before they began buying African as slaves, who did the Spanish first use as slaves in the New World?
Native Americans
Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New world was sponsored by the king and queen of what country?
Spain
Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River while searching for the Northwest Passage for this European country.
France
He made 4 voyages to the New World between 1492 and 1504 and died believing he had discovered the sea route Asia.
Christopher Columbus
The capital city of the Aztec Empire was;
Tenochtitlan
The name of the horrific sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America was called the;
Middle Passage
What was the name of the Native Americans Columbus met on October 12, 1492?
Taino
This Italian explorer discovered the island of Newfoundland in 1497. Like Columbus, he thought he had reached Asia.
John Cabot
This Portuguese captain reached the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope) in 1488 but his crew mutinied and forced him to turn back for home.
Bartolomeu Dias
Cortes had 13 of these small warships constructed to use in fighting the Aztecs.
Brigantines
Why didn't Africans die of smallpox when they came in contact with Europeans?
They were immune from previous contact with Europeans for generations.
When Columbus landed in San Salvador on October 12, 1492, where did he THINK he was?
The East Indies off the coast of Asia.
This English explorer discovered the river and the bay that are named after him in 1609-1610. His crew mutinied and left him and his sons in a rowboat in the bay. They were never seen again.
Henry Hudson
He became the first European to sail around Africa to India in 1498.
Vasco da Gama
This European disease killed tens of thousands of Aztecs because they had no immunity to it.
Smallpox
Name of the former enslaved African who earned his freedom, learned to read and write, and wrote a book about his experiences under slavery.
Olaudah Equiano
Columbus was born in the port city of ___________,
Italy in 1451.
Genoa
Nicknamed the "Sea Dog," this English sailor attacked the Spanish, stealing their gold. He was the first Englishman and the second person to sail around the world.
Sir Francis Drake
He was the captain of the first expedition to sail around the world. He didn't survive the voyage but his ship the Victoria and 18 sailors arrived back in Spain three years after they left.
Ferdinand Magellan
This religious practice carried out by the Aztecs encouraged many native states, including the powerful Tlaxcalans, to ally with Cortes against the Aztecs.
Human sacrifice
Why was it more difficult for Africans to escape slavery than Native Americans?
The Africans' family and friends were 3,000 miles away across the ocean, so they couldn't help or hide them. Native Americans' family and friends were close by.
Name the three ships Columbus sailed with to the New World.
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Samuel de Champlain established this fur-trading post which became the first permanent French settlement in North America.
Quebec