Explorers
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Vocabulary
100

Explored for Spain, known for "discovering" America

Who is Columbus?

100

What did these desires lead to?

1. To expand into new lands

2. To acquire goods

3. To spread Christianity

What is The Age of Exploration?

100

The Spanish explorer who was the first to reach the Incan empire

Who is Pizzarro?

100

Name 1 piece of superior technology brought to the New World by the Europeans to dominate the natives.

What is gun, horses, or steel.

100

European disease that wiped out more native Americans than any other is what?

What is smallpox?

200

"The Navigator" who built a sailing school in Portugal to develop faster ships, new sailing equipment, and more accurate maps.

Who is Prince Henry "The Navigator"?

200

Disease, starvation, poor maps and navigational tools were all obstacles faced by who?

What are explorers?

200

What did Spain name their colony?

What is New Spain?

200

What technological advancement in sailing was new and improved sailing vessels?

What are caravels (triangle sails)?

200

A person who makes rules due to divine right

What is a monarch/king?

300

Where did Christopher Columbus's first voyage land? (Specific Name)

Hispaniola

300

Which European country was the first to send out explorers?

What is Portuga?

300

Name the 2 nations that established settlements in South America in the 1500s.

Who are Spain and Portugal?

300

What is a settlement in a distant land whose citizens keep close ties to their parent country?

What is a Colony?

300

Which animal brought to the new world had the greatest impact on the Native Americans?

What is horse?

400

First explorer to attempt to circumnavigate the earth

Who is Magellan?

400

What was the main problem the Spanish faced in trying to enslave Native Americans?

What is disease?

400

True/False:

By the 1400s, Spain, Portugal, England, and France had all found water routes to Asia.

What is False?

400

Name 2 of the main reasons for conquest in the New World by Europeans.

What is spreading Christianity and making a profit (money)?

400

To go all the way around the earth

What is circumnavigate?

500

Explorer working for England who explored North America.

Who is John Cabot?

500

Trading posts in the interior regions of North America along the Mississippi were established by which Europeans?

Who are the French?

500

What did European exploration in the New World via Africa bring during the Columbia Exchange?

Who are African Slaves?

500

What 2 things weakened the Incan Empire before Pizarro arrived? 

What is smallpox and civil war?

500

Conquerors (Spanish-Americas) who used God to justify their attacks

Who are conquistadors?

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