Peeps
This Italian explorer sailing for Spain reached the Americas in 1492 while searching for Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Portuguese explorers traveled down the western coast of this continent in search of a route to Asia.
What is Africa?
In 1492, this voyage connected Europe to the Americas and began widespread exploration.
What is Columbus’s first voyage?
This group of guys conquered large empires like the Aztecs and Inca.
Who are the conquistadors?
This navigation tool helped sailors determine direction at sea and made long voyages more possible.
What is the compass?
This explorer found a direct sea route to India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Vasco da Gama reached this country, establishing a direct sea trade route for Portugal.
What is India?
This event involved the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between two hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This groupo defeated the mighty Spanish Armada.
What is the English Navy?
This new type of economy allowed individuals to own businesses and seek profit.
What is capitalism?
This explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, though he died during the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This region was the original center of trade before exploration shifted routes westward.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This system of large farms in the Americas relied heavily on enslaved labor for cash crops.
What is the plantation system?
These guys were priests but you would never know it as they took on the dress and customs of those whom they served.
Who were the Jesuits?
Give me the three G's of exploration, please!
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
This English sea captain circumnavigated the globe and challenged Spanish dominance at sea.
Who is Francis Drake?
This European country rose in power after defeating the Spanish Armada and expanding Atlantic trade.
What is England?
Columbus was a proud Italian, but it was this country for whom he claimed the new world.
What is Spain?
These people were sold on the coast of Africa to Europeans and forced to work farms in the new world.
Who were Africans forced into slavery?
This agricultural addition to European diets created a growth in the population.
What is corn/maize?
This Spanish missionary spoke out against the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
The Mass was celebrated at this location in North America continuously for 65 years before the pilgrims arrived in 1620.
What is St Augustine, Florida?
He was the first European on record for having visited California.
Who was Drake?
This class of people financed voyages and businesses in exchange for profit.
Who are investors?
This European import would revolutionize the lives of Native Americans.
What is the horse?