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What are Gold, God and Glory
The Spanish word for Conqueror (for example, a Spanish explorer such as Hernan Cortes)
What is a conquistador
The bridge named after the explorer Giovanni da Verrazano
What is The Verrazano Bridge
A small community of people living in a new place.
What is a colony?
The reason mapmakers had to keep revising their maps whenever an explorer would return from an expedition is because
What are the new places that were found and had to be added to the maps?
European countries Spain, Portugal, France, England and The Netherlands were racing each other to be the first to find the fastest route to Asia, called
What is the Northwest Passage
A group that came to North America 500 years before Columbus
What are The Vikings
The things that analyze and interpret primary sources. These sources are removed from the event. They may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources IN THEM. Examples are: textbooks, encyclopedias, an article that reviews or interprets something that has happened.
What are secondary sources
To find a quicker route to Asia, Christopher Columbus was hired by
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
A journey made by a group of people to achieve a particular purpose.
What is an expedition?
An original document or physical object which was written OR created during the time period being studied, such as a diary, speech, letter, interview, news film or autobiography.
What is a Primary Source
Columbus landed in what is now known as
What is the Bahamas?
European explorers unknowingly brought what into the New World?
What are germs?
Europeans discovered what new items in North America, which they brought back to Europe?
What are potatoes, corn, tomatoes, tobacco, vanilla and cocoa?
*They also brought metal bowls, guns and horses.
The Columbian Exchange included the Sugar Trade. Europeans forced Native people into slave labor. Thousands died so Africans were brought as replacement workers. This was the beginning of the WHAT where 12 million Africans were sold into slavery.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The term used to describe North America and South America is called
What is The New World?
The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture human populations, disease, and ideas between America and Eurasia (Europe and Asia) that connected these two hemispheres together through trade is called
What is the Columbian Exchange
Some people think we should honor Columbus because of his great sailing skills and accomplishments. Others think he treated Native Peoples poorly and should no longer be honored. This makes him a
What is a controversial figure?
Two countries that enslaved many native people in North America and forced them to mine for gold and silver
What are Spain and Portugal
The trading of goods and enslaved human beings between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the 1500s to the 1800s is called...
What is The Triangle Trade?
An area of land ruled by another country
What is a settlement?
The term used to describe Europe, Asia and Africa is called
What is The Old World?
Many natives died from diseases such as smallpox, the flu, and malaria because they had never been exposed to these germs before and thus had no WHAT to fight the germs
What is immunity?
The new crops Europeans brought to North America include
Ship logs and the writings from survivors are some of the primary sources that historians use to learn about what...
What are The Middle Passage and Slavery?