Vocabulary
Columbus and Cabot
Ponce de León and Cortés
Cartier and Coronado
Hudson and de la Salle
100
These are diseases that can be passed quickly from one person to another as germs are spread by touch or through the air.
What are contagious diseases?
100
Columbus intended to go here when he sailed west from Spain in 1492.
What is the East Indies?
200
These are communities ruled by another country, not by its own people.
What are colonies?
200
The flow of goods and ideas between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Ponce de León found thiswhile searching for the fountain of youth.
What is Florida?
300
A name given to a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain.
What are conquistadors?
300
John Cabot reached the eastern coast of present-day Canada in 1497 to do this _______________________.
What is claimed the land for England.
300
Jacques Cartier was looking for this when he sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1534.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This is what England and Holland were looking for when they hired Henry Hudson.
What is good sites for colonies?
400
Southeast Asia, including India, Indonesia, and Malaysia are called _________________.
What are the East Indies?
400
Montezuma II welcomed Hernán Cortés to the Aztec community in 1519 because ______________________.
What is Montezuma thought Cortés might be a god that was expected to return?
400
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado came to the Americas to _______________.
What is to seek glory and wealth?
400
Robert de La Salle wanted to explore the Mississippi River to _____________________.
What is he wanted to establish a French empire of trading posts, forts, and settlements?
500
The supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found.
What is the Nortwest Passage?
500
The Spanish finally defeat the Aztecs by __________.
What is they surrounded the Aztec capital for a year and cut off its supplies.
500
The Spanish priests believe dthat Coronado's expedition had been a success because ______________.
What is Tte priests believed they had found a shorter route to the Holy Land.
500
La Salle named the entire Mississippi Valley __________.
What is Louisiana?
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