Renaissance
Who wrote a book that inspired others to want to explore?
Who is Marco Polo?
Who sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage?
Who are the King and Queen of Spain?
What term describes the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Spain and the Americas?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What was the main cause of death of slaves?
What is disease?
What were Spanish soldiers who traveled to the Americas to conquer territory and gain wealth called?
What are conquistadors?
What era did Marco Polo's exploration create?
What is the Renaissance?
How many ships did Columbus sail with?
What is 3 ships?
Name the 3 crops that were exchanged that improved the diet of the Europeans?
What is corn, potatoes, and squash? (wheat and rice also accepted)
Why did they increasingly enslave African Americans to work in the gold mines and sugar fields?
What is the majority of the Taino dying from diseases?
Which Spanish conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
What invention made Marco Polo's book more available?
What is the printing press?
What did Christopher Columbus name the Caribbean Island he claimed?
What is San Salvador?
What 4 domesticated animals did Europeans introduce to the Americas?
What is horses, cows, pigs and sheep?
What were the 2 products they forced enslaved workers to produce?
What is gold and sugar?
Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca Empire in present-day Peru?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Since Marco Polo traveled by land, how did other Explorers try to find these riches instead?
What is by sea route?
What 2 things did he enslave the Taino people to do as laborers?
What is work in the gold mines and sugar fields?
True or False: The Columbian exchange was positive for Europe and the Americas and why?
How were slaves transferred to the Americas?
What is traded for guns or auctioned?
Which evidence best explains why the Aztec Empire was vulnerable to Cortés's conquest: the Aztecs had no organized government, or smallpox killed warriors and some Indigenous groups opposed Aztec rule?
What is that smallpox killed many Aztec warriors and some Indigenous groups opposed Aztec rule?
Marco Polo spent 17 years in this Asian country with riches and luxurious palaces.
Where is China?
What false belief did Columbus die believing?
What is that he reached the Indies, but he actually encountered lands in North and South America?
What was the result of 90% of the enslaved Taino dying?
What is enslavement of Africans to complete the labor demands.
Name at least 1 hardship enslaved Africans faced?
What is crowding, disease, being auctioned, diseases, or overwork?
Why was smallpox especially important to Spain's conquest of both the Aztec and Inca empires? Explain how it weakened both empires.
What is it killed large numbers of people, including warriors, weakened the empires, and contributed to instability, making Spanish conquest easier.