Lesson 1 - Europeans come to the Americas
An Italian captain who reached the Bahama Islands while searching for a sea route to the Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus
A group of people who created an Empire, their capital city was named Tenocntitlan.
Who are the Aztecs
The Spanish renamed Mexico this
What is New Spain
A map that shows places or events from the past
What is a Historical Map
The name of Columbus's ships
What is the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
The country that provided funding for Columbus's expedition.
What is Spain
A Spanish explorer who took the leader of the Aztec's hostage and led to the fall of the Aztec empire
Who is Hernando Cortes
True or False - The Spanish didn't use forced labor to settle the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America
What is False. They did use forced labor
A legend that can help you understand the symbols on a map
What is a Map Key
The King and Queen of Spain in the 1470's-1500's
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
This was the exchange of products, animals and disease between the old world in the East and the new world in the West
What is the Columbian Exchange
A name for a Spanish conqueror or solider
What is a Conquistador
A person who teaches their religion to others who have different beliefs
What is a Missionary
This ocean needed to be crossed in order to get from Spain to the Bahamas and Mexico
What is the Atlantic Ocean
True or False - The Spanish Conquistadors also led to the fall of the Mayan and Incan empires
What is true
A settlement far away from the country that rules it is called this
What is a colony
The name of the Aztec emperor
Who is Montezuma
This is a large area of conquered land in which natives were forced to work on
What is an Encomienda
This is the current US state that was discovered by Juan Ponce De Leon
What is Florida - he was looking for the fountain of youth
What is San Salvador
A major impact from the Columbian Exchange on the Western Hemisphere (the Americas).
What is the arrival of horses allowing for faster transportation and made it easier to hunt buffalo
or
What is the arrival of new disease which led to devastating impacts on the population
This is why the Spanish were able to concur the Aztec
A Catholic Priest who traveled to Hispaniola and opposed using forced labor in encomiendas
Who is Bartolome de las Casas
This is the name of the record that a ship captain keeps during their voyage
What is a log
An elderly escaped slave in Africa that Spanish solders attempted to recapture
Who is Yanga