Why Did Europeans Explore?
Why did European countries want new routes to Asia?
What is they wanted easier access to valuable goods?
Who began the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Describe the Columbian Exchange.
What is plants, animals, people, and diseases moved between different parts of the world?
Why did Spain establish colonies in the Americas?
What is to gain resources and wealth?
Name the four countries that completed for opportunities in the Americas.
Who are Spain, Portugal, England, and France?
Which was an important incentive for European exploration?
What is wealth and valuable resources?
Which civilization did Francisco Pizarro conquer?
Who are the Inca?
What does immunity mean?
What is having the ability to fight something off, such as disease?
What is a plantation?
What is a large farm where crops are grown?
What is the largest Portuguese colony in the Americas known as today?
What is Brazil?
Christopher Columbus sailed west across which ocean?
What is the Atlantic?
What was one advantage the Spanish had during their conquests?
What is European diseases weakened Indigenous populations?
True or False: The Columbian Exchange was positive and successful for everyone in the Americas?
What is FALSE?
What was an important purpose of Spanish missions?
What is to spread Christianity?
Why were European countries fighting for land in the Americas?
What is they wanted wanted land, resources, trade, and greater power?
In what year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?
What is 1492?
Cause: Europeans brought diseases such as smallpox to the Americas.
What was the effect?
What is the native peoples were not immune to these diseases, so many of them got sick and died?
Name three animals that were brought to the Americas by the Europeans.
What are horses, pigs, and cattle?
Why were enslaved Africans brought to Spanish colonies?
What is to perform forced labor?
How did European exploration change the Americas?
☐ European exploration
☐ Columbus
☐ Spanish conquest
☐ Aztecs or Inca
☐ Columbian Exchange
☐ disease
☐ colonies
☐ missions
☐ enslaved Africans
☐ American Indians
Why were European rulers willing to fund exploration?
What is they knew explorers might return with valuable goods, new trade routes, or information about unknown lands?
Describe TWO ways European conquest changed life for American Indian peoples.
What are...
1) Diseases spread and killed thousands of native peoples.
2) Indigenous people were forced from their homes. Many were killed or forced into slavery as well.
Name three foods that the Europeans discovered in the Americas.
What are potatoes, tomatoes, corn, cacao, and peppers?
Which group was at the top of Spanish colonial society?
What are Peninsulares?
What was the biggest problem and misunderstanding about European exploration?
What is Indigenous peoples were already living on these lands?