Spain/Portugal
North America
Explorers
Indigenous People
Slavery
100
Portugal was the first nation to establish trading outposts on the West Coast of this continent.
What is Africa
100
This is the "lost colony", a British colony that disappeared shortly after its founding.
What is Roanoke
100
Vasco da Gama famously sailed to this area of the world.
What is India
100
This Empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro
What is the Inca Empire
100
This is the name given to the sea voyage from Africa to the New World taken by slave ships.
What is the Middle Passage
200
The term "Mestizo" describes a person with these two ethnic backgrounds.
What are Spanish and Native American
200
French and Dutch explorers were searching for this sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Northwest Passage
200
A German cartographer named the New World after this Italian.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
200
This man was the Emperor of the Aztec Empire when Hernan Cortes invaded.
Who is Montezuma
200
The Spanish abused this system and used it to exact forced labor from the Natives during the 16th century.
What is the Encomienda System
300
This country, set to host the 2014 World Cup, speaks Portuguese because of the Line of Demarcation.
What is Brazil
300
The Native American leader Metacom was also known by this name.
What is King Philip
300
This man was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias
300
Native American workers were exploited as laborers at this South American silver mine.
What is Potosi
300
Tobacco, Cotton, and Sugar Cane are all examples of this type of resource grown purely for profit.
What is a cash crop
400
Spain received ownership of all undiscovered land on this side of the Line of Demarcation.
West (left)
400
This was the first European nation to discover the Great Lakes region.
What is France
400
This is where Ferdinand Magellan died.
What is The Philippines.
400
Mexico City is built upon the site of this Aztec capital city.
What is Tenochtitlan
400
In this region, slave owners preferred to work slaves to death and then purchase new workers, rather than build self-sustaining slave family units.
What is the Caribbean
500
These are the four factors, given in class, that allowed Cortes to conquer the Aztecs.
What are Aztec Religion, Indian Allies, Weapons and Armor, and Disease
500
The French and Indian War was part of this larger global conflict between France and Britain.
What is the Seven Years War
500
Captain Chelsea "Sully" Sullenberger successfully landed a passenger jet into a river named for this Dutch sponsored explorer
Who is Henry Hudson
500
This nation received a majority of Native American assistance during the French and Indian War.
What is France
500
Slaves transported to the New World were typically captured by these people.
What are West Africans.
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