3.1: Europeans Reach the Americas
3.2: Spain Builds an Empire
3.3: Africans Reach the Americas
3.4: Colonizing North America
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100
Name of religious wars between Christians and Muslims
What are the Crusades?
100
Person who established the first Spanish colonies in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Type of work performed by African slaves in the Americas.
What are mining and plantation labor?
100
Sea route through or around North America to Asia.
What is the northwest passage?
100
First European country to establish colonies in the Americas.
What is Spain?
200
Period in European history from 500 to 1350
What are the Middle Ages?
200
Name given to Spanish explorers who conquered the Americas.
What are conquistadors?
200
People who were used as slaves in the Americas before Africans.
Who are Native Americans?
200
European countries who searched for the northwest passage.
What are France, England, and the Netherlands?
200
Word meaning to change.
What is a reform?
300
A period of new learning in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
300
Name of the person who conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortez?
300
Name of the voyage taken by slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Event that led to a split between European Christians.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
300
Rankings of society.
What are social classes?
400
Invention that made copying books easier
What is the printing press?
400
Name of the person who conquered the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
Number of slaves brought to the Americas.
What is 11 million?
400
The goal of missionaries in the Americas.
What is to convert people to Christianity?
400
Name of a territory controlled by a foreign country.
What is a colony?
500
Two events that caused Europeans to come into contact with the outside world.
What are the Crusades and the Renaissance?
500
Name of the ruler of the Aztecs
Who is Montezuma?
500
Percentage of slaves who died during the Middle Passage.
What is 15 - 30 %?
500
Name of the countries that established colonies in North America.
What are England, France, and Spain?
500
The theory that a country needs to acquire colonies to increase its wealth.
What is mercantilism?
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