Explorers
Settlements
Trade
Natives
Voyages
100
Italian seafarer hired by Spain to find a route to the Indies but instead found an island in the Bahamas in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
What country had the most missions in the Americas?
Spain
100
Major motivation for going to the New World
What is gold and spice
100
Greatest devastation for the Native Americans
What is disease
100
The era of European exploration in the world from the 15th century to the 17th century
What is the Age of Discovery
200
Spanish explorers in search for gold and glory
Who were conquistadores
200
11th century colonization by the Norse
Greenland
200
The most important food item found in the New World
What is maize (corn)
200
The ruler of Tenochtitlan who thought Cortes was a god
Who is Moctezuma
200
The discovery of what is currently New York was made by this man
Who is Henry Hudson
300
The first known European explorers in the Americas
Who were the Vikings
300
The San Antonio de Valero mission is now famously known as this
What is the Alamo
300
What percentage of crops cultivated in the world today originated in the Americas?
1/3
300
The descendants of Europeans and Native Americans were called this
What were Mestizos
300
Jacques Gartier journeyed up what river?
The St. Lawrence River
400
This area of the Americas was explored by Juan Ponce de Leon
What is Florida
400
The Spanish founded the oldest continually inhabited European settlement here.
What is St. Augustine, Florida
400
Which of the following was introduced from Europeans to the New World: corn, vanilla, rice, or tomatoes?
rice
400
What was the Indian uprising in which natives destroyed every Catholic church killing hundreds of priests and Spanish settlers in New Mexico?
Pope's Rebellion
400
Henry Hudson was arrested for sailing under the flag of this nation
What is the Dutch Netherlands
500
Match each explorer with the correct description:Hernan Cortes,Ferdinand Magellan,Francisco Pizarro,Hernando de Soto; first man to circumnavigate the world, conquered the Incas in Peru, led the first expedition deep into the modern day US, conquered the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan
Cortes - conquered Tenochtitlan Magellan - circumnavigated the world Pizarro -
500
In 1492, the Pope ratified this document that divided the newly discovered lands in the Western Hemisphere between Portugal and Spain
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
500
The stage of the triangular trade in which slaves were taken from Africa to the New World
What was middle passage
500
The encomienda system tried to do this to Indians.
Christianize them
500
Hernando Cortes was in this country prior to sailing to the New World
What is Cuba
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