Vocabulary
A land trade route from Asia to Europe, traders wanted to create a sea route to bypass it.
The Silk Road
This country had a good history of relations with Native Americans.
France
A Conquistador is from what country?
Spain
Who is the Columbian Exchange named after?
Christopher Columbus
The year that Christopher Columbus discovered the America's
1492
He “discovered” the new world, but the whole time he thought he had found a new route to India.
Christopher Columbus
African slaves who have had their rights, liberty, freedom and culture taken away from them can be referred to as this:
Dehumanized
To sail around the world.
DAILY DOUBLE
Circumnavigate
Conquistadors defeated this Native American Empire in which was located in present day Mexico.
The Aztecs
This was the cargo brought from Europe to Africa:
Manufactured Goods
Where was Columbus going to when he found the America's?
He was the first to circumnavigate the globe, although he was actually killed in the Philippines.
Magellan
Navigational aid that shows the direction in which a person or vessel is traveling.
Compass
The most important animal brought to the New World
Horse
This Conquistador defeated the Inca Empire
Francisco Pizarro
What 3 continents make up the Triangle Trade?
Europe, Africa and the Americas
A Spanish priest, he wrote about how bad the treatment of the Native Americans was at the hands of the Conquistadors.
Bartolome de Las Casas
The Year Hernando Cortes lands in Mexico?
1519
This is something grown specifically to be sold.
Cash Crop
The Treaty of Tordesillas split control of the Americas between which 2 countries?
Spain and Portugal
Columbus was not from Spain. Where was he born?
Italy or Italian
The stage from Africa to the Americas is also referred to as this.
DAILY DOUBLE
The Middle Passage
These are the first people Columbus encountered:
Tiano
He traveled to China and worked in the court of the Emperor, when he returned to Europe he educated people about Chinese foods and traditions
Marco Polo
A water route through North America, it is what early explorers were looking for.
Northwest Passage
English Colonies
Conquistadors were able to defeat the Native american's because of better weapons, armor, fear, help from other Native Tribes, and what?
Diseases
The process of forcing Africans from their homeland.
African Diaspora
What was the name of the Spanish Queen who financed Columbus's voyage?
Isabella
He first realized that a new land had been discovered that was not India; the Americans are named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci