Explorers
Explored for Spain, known for "discovering" America
Who is Columbus?
What are some motivations for exploration?
1. God
2. Gold
3. Glory
The Portuguese explorer who was the first to reach a direct route to india.
Vasco De Gama
Name 1 piece of superior technology brought to the New World by the Europeans to dominate the natives.
What is guns, horses, or steel.
European disease that wiped out more native Americans than any other is what?
What is smallpox?
"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"?
What are two things that caused a lot of death among Native Americans
Disease and Enslavement
How did the French gain most of their wealth in North America?
What is the fur trade?
What technological advancement in sailing was new and improved sailing vessels?
What are caravels (triangle sails)?
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
Where did Christopher Columbus's first voyage land? (Specific Name)
Bahamas
Which European country was the first to send out explorers?
What is Portugal?
Name the 2 nations that established settlements in South America in the 1500s.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
What is a settlement in a distant land whose citizens keep close ties to their parent country?
What is a Colony?
Which animal brought to the new world had the greatest impact on the Native Americans?
What is horse?
First explorer to attempt to circumnavigate the earth
Who is Magellan?
Name two Native Empires the Spanish conquered
Incas and Aztecs
True/False:
By the 1400s, Spain, Portugal, England, and France had all found water routes to Asia.
What is False?
What sect (religious group) were the Spanish?
Roman Catholic
To go all the way around the earth
What is circumnavigate?
Italian Explorer working for England who explored North America.
Who is John Cabot?
Trading posts in the interior regions of the US and Canada along the Mississippi were established by which Europeans?
French
What did European exploration in the New World via Africa bring during the Columbia Exchange?
Who are African Slaves?
What 2 things weakened the Incan Empire before Pizarro arrived?
What is smallpox and civil war?
Conquerors (Spanish-Americas) who used God to justify their attacks
Who are conquistadors?