Reconquista
Meaning of "Reconquista" in English.
Reconquering
Four main reasons for Columbus's first voyage.
Claim land for Spain, convert people, find an alternate route to Asia, get valuables such as gold.
Columbus believed the indigenous people to be meek because they didn't have these tools.
Guns/iron
The ____ were "reconquering" Iberia from the ____.
Catholics, Moors
3 events that led to the Age of Exploration.
1453 capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans, Scientific Revolution creating more navigation/ship technology, and Protestant Reformation.
The number one killer of indigenous people during Columbus's tenure.
Disease
Instituted by Isabella and Ferdinand in 1492 (no one ever expects it).
Spanish Inquisition
Why Columbus failed.
He miscalculate the circumference of the Earth and also didn't know that the Americas existed. Plus he sucked.
Products traded on the Silk Road
Jade, porcelain, onions, lime glass, furs, textiles, silk, tea, carrots, spinach, eggplants, horses, gunpowder, paper, religion, ideas
Language spoken by the people of the Aztec Empire.
Nahuatl
Dominican friar who spoke out against Columbus and Cortes's treatment of indigenous people.
Bartolome de las Casas
The last Muslim holdout in Iberia for almost 200 years.
Dates Columbus arrived at and left the Caribbean on his first voyage.
October 12 1492 - March 15 1493
Some of the tribes Columbus encountered on his first voyage.
Taino, Ciguayo, Arawak, Kapinago