Explorers
The Viking who reached what is now Canada before Columbus
Who is Leif Erikson
This explorer concurred the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This was the exchange of people, plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish soldier-adventurers seareching for Wealth and Glory.
What are Conquistadors?
These Rulers Agreed to Finance Columbus's voyage west.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This Italian Explorer sailed for Spain in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus
This explorer conquered the Inca Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This was brought from Europe to the Americas and devastated Native Americans.
What are Diseases?
This Aztec ruler welcomed Cortes with gifts of Gold.
Who was Moctezuma?
This group sat at the top of the Spanish colonial Society because they were born in Spain.
Who were the Peninsulares?
This explorer's name was given to the America's.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This explorer discovered the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
These are two examples of Crops that traveled from the Americas to Europe.
What are Corn and Potatoes? (Chocolate, tomatoes, etc..)
This labor system allowed Spaniards to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
People with a European parent and one Native American parent were called this
What is a Mestizo?
This explorer's crew completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This explorer searched for the Seven Cities of Gold across the American Southwest.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
This was the Biggest negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans.
What was the Spread of Disease?
Spain began importing these people because so many Native Americans had died.
Who were enslaved Africans?
Columbus's voyages helped make this country one of the wealthiest in Europe.
What is Spain?
This explorer became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
This explorer became the first Spaniard to step foot in present-day Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
Historians consider this exchange important because it permanently connected these two previously separated parts of the world.
What are the Old and New World?
Better weapons, Horses, and the chaos of the Native Americans helped Spain do what?
Defeat the Large Native American Empires.
Magellan's voyage proved this about the world.
What is that it was possible to sail completely around the world.