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His improvement of the printing press helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance across Europe.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
These were Spanish explorers sent to the New World to search for gold and other treasure.
Who are conquistadors
Because Native Americans were dying from overwork and disease, Europeans began to import people from this continent to work as slave labor.
What is Africa
Every country was searching for this all-water route through North America.
What is northwest passage
This was the first country to find a water route to the Indies.
What is Portugal.
This conquistador conquered the Incan Empire.
Who is Pizarro
This time period in Europe is also known as the Dark Ages.
What are the Middle Ages
What are 2 reasons why the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztecs and Incas.
Diseases Superior weapons Aliiances (GUNS, GERMS, and STEEL)
Phillip sent this feared military force to try and conquer England.
What is the Spanish Armada.
Johannes Gutenberg was from this country.
What is Germany
This Spanish monarch tried to conquer England in the late 1500s.
Who is Phillip II
These were large farms established by the Spanish in the New World.
What are plantations
Name 2 inventions that made further exploration possible.
What are the astrolabe and the magnetic compass
As a result of exploration, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and England all began building these in the New World.
What are colonies.
The Renaissance began in this country.
What is Italy
He conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes
During this period, Europe came out of the Dark Ages and began to discover new ideas about art, writing, technology, and philosophy.
What is the Renaissance
Give 2 reasons why Europeans explored?
1. Gold 2. Spread Christianity 3. Expand their empire
France and the Netherlands built colonies in the New World and got rich from this business.
Fur Trade
King Henry VIII made this country's official religion Protestant.
What is England
This Portuguese leader brought the best and brightest to his country to find a faster route to Asia.
Who is Prince Henry
The discovery of America by Europeans led to this sharing of new plants, animals, diseases and ideas between the New and Old Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange.
This country was the first and only one to have colonies in America for almost 100 years.
What is Spain
Give 2 important effects the defeat of the Spanish by Elizabeth I had on the world.
1. Spain's image suffered and other countries were willing to challenge them. 2. England gained respect in the world.
Settlers from this country started a settlement at what today is New York City.
What is the Netherlands