Explorers
Europe and the New World
Conquered
Cause and Effect
Vocabulary
100
This explorer is famous for circumnavigating the world for the first time ever.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
Name the ORIGINAL goal (or thing Europeans hoped to gain) for exploring the world on the ocean?
What is finding a new western SEA route to Asia?
100
Name the country that the explorers who conquered the Incas and Aztecs are both from.
What is; Spain?
100
Political and religious conflicts in Europe.
What is; the cause (or reason) for European countries competing for land and resources in the Americas?
100
To change someone's or one's own beliefs
What is; convert?
200
This explorer was the first to document the Americas while he was searching for a new SEA route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Name the SECOND goal (or thing the Europeans hoped to gain) from exploring the New World?
What is to gain control of territories and resources. (claim land and resources)?
200
Name the country (in today's time) that the Aztecs used to live in.
What is; Mexico?
200
The Aztec and Inca empires being conquered is the result (or what happened because) of what?
What is; Spanish explorers attempting to gain land and wealth?
200
The meaning of cartographer.
What is; a person who makes maps or charts?
300
This explorer is also called a Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Aztecs.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
300
Name the THIRD goal (or thing the Europeans hoped to gain) from exploring the New World.
What is; to convert people to their religion.
300
Name the country (in today's time) that the Incas used to live in.
What is; Peru?
300
What happens because Spain sends Magellan to find a western route to Asia?
What is; Magellan's expedition becomes first to circumnavigation the world?
300
The act of sailing around something can be called what?
What is; circumnavigation?
400
This man is a Spanish conquistador who is accredited for conquering the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
What 2 types of conflicts (or problems) were happening in European countries during the time that the New World was discovered?
What is; political and religious?
400
One difference between Pizarro's and Cortes' expeditions are the continents they reached. Name these 2 continents.
What is; Central America and South America?
400
Competing for land and resources in the Americas is the cause or effect of political and religious conflicts in Europe?
What is; the effect?
400
A synonym for destroy.
What is: conquer?
500
This explorer is not as famous as others even though there are 3 continents named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
Due to the conflicts in Europe, countries began sending explorers to the New World (the Americas) and competed for what 2 things?
What are; land and resources?
500
Overcome and take control of (a place or people) by use of military force. This is the meaning of what word?
What is; conquer?
500
Name 2 effects of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe and other explorer's discoveries had on how Europeans' understood the world?
What is; they discovered other landforms (while searching for the Northwest Passage) and South America?
500
A natural feature of the earth's surface.
What is; a landform?
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