General
What was the motivation for exploration?
Gold, God, Glory
What did the Inca get from the cacao bean?
Chocolate
Sailing under the English flag at the time, who explored areas of what is today Canada, including the Hudson Bay?
Henry Hudson
What went from Europe to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange that changed the way of life for Native Americans?
Horses
To sell to other countries
Export
On Christopher Columbus' second voyage, who did he take with him to conquer the people of these new lands?
Conquistadors
This civilization created a fully developed writing system that was a form of hieroglyphs.
Mayan
What Italian navigator got Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to give him 3 ships to sail west across the Atlantic to find Asia, only to reach America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
What result of the Columbian Exchange helped Europeans the most in conquering the Native Americans?
Diseases
What are crops that are grown in large quantities to be sold for profit?
Cash Crops
A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the homeland
Colony
What maritime invention helped with directions?
Compass
In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by rounding the tip of Africa and landing on India's southwest coast?
Vasco de Gama
This empire fell in 1532 in an encounter with the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, in which his soldiers won using guns, armor, and horses even though they were greatly outnumbered.
Inca
The idea that a country gains power by exporting more goods than they import to get more gold and silver
Mercantilism
During the 1400's and 1500's, exploration and trade grew as the ability to print maps and navigational books were improved, leading to what age?
Age of Exploration
What crops were brought from the Americas?
Potatoes, corn, or tomatoes
In 1520, Spain hired whom to lead an expedition that sailed west and finally circumnavigated or sailed around the world, despite the death of this same explorer along the way?
Ferdinand Magellan
Why did the Aztecs call themselves the "people of the sun"
Their main god was the sun god
For which "cash crop" did Europeans first bring enslaved Africans to plantations in the Americas?
Sugarcane
Which name is used for a global exchange of people, plants, animals, technology, ideas, and diseases, especially between the "Old World" (Europe and Africa) and the "New World" (the Americas)?
Columbian Exchange
What inventions made or improved by Arabic people, made European exploration possible?
Astrolabe, compass, triangular sails
Which Spanish explorer journeyed through areas of North America which are now parts of the Southeastern United States, such as Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee?
Hernando de Soto
Which of these Native American civilizations was located in the Andes Mountains of South America?
Inca
The system of buying and selling of goods in large amounts, locally, regionally, and even by trade routes across the world.
Commerce