Age of Exploration
The year Columbus sailed the "Great Blue"
What is 1492
The settlements of Spaniards working to convert Natives to Christianity.
What is a mission?
The name of the church protesting and separating from the Roman Catholic church.
What is the Protestant Church?
A partnership with Native Americans.
What is an alliance?
The introduction of this to the Americas caused the death of many Native Americans.
What is disease? (illness)
The three ships that Columbus and crew sailed to the Americas.
What is the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
A soldier-explorer.
What is a conquistador?
An economy where the colony works to bring wealth to it's home country.
What is Merchantilism?
France focused on this resource with the help of Native American guides and hunters.
What is fur?
A system put in place by Spain that allowed Spaniards to demand taxes or free labor from Natives.
What is the encomienda system?
The transfer of goods, people, and ideas during the era of exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Two precious metals mined in the Americas.
What is silver and Gold?
Three countries competing for land, resources, and power in North America.
What is France, England, and Spain? (also the Netherlands/Dutch)
a sea-route through North America that would connect the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
What is the northwest passage?
Natives made alliances with this European country.
What is France?
The European explorer credited with first seeing the Pacific ocean.
Who is Balboa?
The fleet of Spanish ships defeated by the British.
What is the Spanish Armada?
The group of people credited with exploring the Americas before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
The trade of this resource caused a decline in the number of certain animals in the Great Lakes region.
What is fur?
What is the Aztec Empire?
Navigating around the entire Earth.
What is circumnavigate?
The Aztec leader held captive by Hernando Cortes.
Who is Monteczuma?
The Northwest passage was desired by European countries to find a passage to this continent.
What is Asia?
One of the Great Lakes is named after this French explorer.
Who is Samuel De Champlain?
The introduction of this weapon caused escalating conflicts between Native American tribes in North America.
What are guns?