Exploration and Motives
This 3-word phrase explains why Europeans explored: wealth, religion, and fame.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered lands in the Americas.
What are conquistadors?
The movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and New World is called this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Priests at missions taught Native Americans about this religion.
What is Christianity?
This country explored North America looking for fur and trade routes.
What is France?
Europeans wanted to find a faster ocean route to Asia to trade for these valuable goods
What are spices (and silk)?
This conquistador defeated the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This Old World animal changed life in the Americas by providing transportation
What is the horse?
Besides religion, missions also taught Native Americans European skills like this.
What is farming, crafts, and trades?
This European country started colonies along the east coast of North America.
What is England?
This country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage.
What is Spain?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This New World crop became important in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What is corn (maize) or potatoes?
This term means Native Americans were forced to work without pay.
What is slavery or forced labor?
The French often had more peaceful relationships with Native Americans because they focused on this industry.
What is the fur trade?
This explorer reached the Americas but thought he had landed in Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Spain wanted to control the Americas mainly to gain this precious metal.
What is gold (and silver)?
This deadly disease from Europe killed millions of Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
Europeans claimed land in the Americas even though this group already lived there.
Who are Native Americans (Indigenous people)?
This country established the sea route to India and known for colonizing Brazil
What is Portugal?
European nations explored partly to spread this religion.
What is Christianity?
Name the 3 ships in Columbus's fleet in 1492
What are the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria?
The most important animal transferred from the Americas back to the old world
What is the Turkey?
The arrival of Europeans caused major changes to Native American cultures, also known as this word meaning “way of life.”
What is culture?
This is the idea that cultural traits, like goods and ideas, are spread from one culture to another or within one culture
What is cultural diffusion?