Explorers & Conquistadors
This explorer sailed for Spain and was credited with helping make Spain the richest and most powerful country in the world in the 1500's
Christopher Columbus
This was a period of relearning classica knowledge and artistic creativity, leading to a rebirth of knowledge in Europe known as...
The Renaissance
He was a priest the questioned the practices of the Catholic Church. He broke away from the church b/c the church doing things not mentioned in the bible, which he disagreed with.
Martin Luther
This allowed sailors to know their latitude by being able to measure the sun or the stars.
Astrolabe
This country wanted to set up settlements in North Ameerica for the purpose of fishing and the fur trade.
France
This conquistador was responsible for conquering the Aztec empire in Mexico.
Hernan Cortes
Many explorers searched for an all-water route through the newly discovered continents that would lead them to Asia. This route was known as...
The Northwest Passage
This man did many things in his life including trading, writing a popular wide-read book, exploring an entire other continent, and befriended the ruler of China.
Marco Polo
This Chinese invention allowed people to know what direction they were travelling in while on the ocean.
magnetic compass
This European country set up its colony along the Hudson for the purpose of trade and only paid $24 dollars for the entire island of Manhattan.
The Netherlands (Dutch)
This Portuguese sailor reached and rounded the Horn (or tip) of Africa but returned due to bad storms.
Bartholomeu Diaz
This book is the religious holy book for all Muslims
Quran
This man helped his country during the Age of Exploration by setting up a sailing school in his home country of Portugal.
Henry the Navigator
The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes is known as.
technology
John Cabot's exploration of North America gave this country a claim in the New World.
England
This conquistador was able to conquer the Incan empire with only 168 men and some horses.
Francisco Pizarro
This theory or idea that said that the more wealth a country had the more powerful that country was.
Mercantilism
This English ruler refused to marry his dead brother's wife, broke away from the Catholic church, and made his country a Protestant country with him as the head of the church.
King Henry the VIII
This invention allowed for wide spread distribution of books like Marco Polo's Travels and the Bible.
The Printing Press
What happened to the Native Americans who were forced to work under the Spanish on plantations in bad conditions? Who replaced them? (2 part answer)
They ran away, or got sick and/or died; they were replaced by enslaved Africans from West Africa.
This man's crew finished the journey he started after he died. However, he was still given the credit for being the first to circumnavigate the world .
Ferdinand Magellan
Name the 3 types of Spanish settlements in the New World.
Pueblos (towns), Presidios (Forts), and Missions (religious settlements)
She was a major supporter of Columbus, giving him his 3 ships that he used to discover the New World in 1492.
Queen Isabella of Spain
This invention from the Muslim world allowed for ships to turn much more quickly without moving the sails.
The stern rudder
These 2 countries were able to avoid a war by signing the Treaty of Tordesillas, splitting the New World.
Spain and Portugal
He was the first explorer from Portugal to actually reach Asia by going around the Cape of good Hope.
Vasco da Gama
This policy gave the Spanish in the New World the right to demand taxes and/or labor of the natives living in the areas they controlled.
encomienda
This ruler, not liking the name, Cape of Storms, renamed the Horn of Africa the Cape of Good Hope to encourage the growth of a trade route to India.
King John II of Portugal
What country is given credit for the Caravel and name the 3 ways it was better than any of the other ships afloat at the time.
Portugal; caravels were faster, could carry more cargo/goods, and could float in shallow water.
What were the 5 social classes created by the Spanish in the New World. (In order highest to lowest)
Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Native Americans and enslave Africans