Explorers
Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
What is Christopher Columbus
Which two countries dominated the Age of Exploration?
Who are Spain and Portugal
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
Europeans turned to who, after natives died off from diseases like smallpox, measles, and malaria?
Who is African Slaves
What is the name of Spanish/Portuguese explorers that wanted riches,power, and glory for Spain and Portugal in the conquest of the Americas called?
What is a conquistador
A Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Who is Hernán Cortés
What was the name of the treaty that divided the world between Spain & Portugal?
The Treaty of Tordasillas
What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"
What is .... 1. Glory (Fame and developing strong reputation) 2 Gold (trade routes to Asia and to become wealthy) 3. God (to spread Christianity)
List three products that were imported into the "New World".
What is (answers will vary)
What affect did the defeat of the Aztec by Cortes have on other explorers.
What is it encouraged explorers to explore North America for wealth
Who provided the funding for explorers during the 15th and 16th Century?
Who is the Roman Catholic Church
During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the Earth as being?
What is flat
What is the name of the labor system that was introduced by the Spanish to force labor and tribute from natives and Africans called.
What is the Encomienda System
List the products that were exported to the “Old World”.
What is....(remaining items not mentioned)
What is the transfer of plants, animals, and disease called?
What is the Columbian Exchange.
Who helped Hernan Cortes defeat the aztec?
Who is Dona Marina.
This is a person who is mixed with Spanish and Indian descent.
What is a Mestizo
What was the most valuable resource gained from the Americas for the Spanish?
What is minerals like silver and gold
What was a result of the Columbian Exhange bringing over new goods to be harvest in the New World?
What is the slave trade
What is the name of the people at the top of the social class created by the encomienda system.
Bonus: define the answer 100 points
What is Penisulares.
People who are of European Decent only and born in Europe.
Spanish explorer and conquistador, he helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru and the Incas, founded its capital city, Lima.
Who is Francisco Pizarro
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
Who had power over the Spanish Viceroy in the Spanish Colonies?
What is the Spanish Crown
Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.
What is.....New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc.
What is the name of the leader of the Aztecs that Hernan Cortes captured?
Who is Montezuma