Explorers
Reasons for Exploration
Regions Explored
Affects of Exploration
Vocabulary
100

Known for his voyages funded by Spain's King and Queen

Christopher Columbia

100

Most explorers wanted to go here for spices

India

100

This region was explored for Spices

India

100

True or False: Europe became very wealthy due to their Explorations

True

100

Traveling around the earth

Circumnavigation

200

First explorer to reach India 

Vasco DeGama

200

Being known for doing something (One of the three G's)

Glory

200

The Portuguese traveled in this direction during their explorations

East


200

This was the percentage of Native Americans wiped out by explorers

90%

200

Name for a conqueror from Spain

Conquistador

300

This explorer is known for completing the first circumnavigation

Ferdinand Magellan

300
Obtaining goods that can be sold/traded (One of the three G's)

Gold

300

The Spanish traveled this direction during their Explorations (True or False: some of these explorations were by accident)

West (True)

300

This group replaced Native Americans in doing hard labor in the Americas

Africans
300

Lack of Vitamin C for Sailors

Scurvy

400

This explorer is who America is named after

Amerigo Vespucci


400

Many Spanish conquerors were responsible for doing this to Native Americans

Converting them to Catholics (God)

400

Juan Ponce DeLeon is remembered for exploring which regions

Florida and Puerto Rico

400

This group was taken over by Hernan Cortes

The Aztec

400

Spanish System of Labor

Encomienda

500

Explorer who went around the tip of Africa

Bartholomew Dias

500

 The three goals for Native Americans to fully integrate into Spanish Society

1. Pay Taxes

2. Convert to Christianity 

3. Learn Spanish

500

The Triangle of Exploration for Africa 

DeGama (East), Dias (West), and Prince Henry the Navigator (North)

500

This group was taken over by Pizzarro

The Inca

500

The Southermost Tip of Africa

The Cape of Good Hope

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