Exploring
What did Christopher Columbus explore?
He explored the new world.
What would lead to Europe's wealth increase?
Quicker trade routes
Where did Cortes land?
He landed in Mexico.
Exploration meaning.
Traveling through an unknown land to learn about it.
What were the French trading throughout North America?
They were trading treasure furs.
What was Christopher Columbus trying to accomplish?
A quick trade route to Asia.
What main thing was taken back to Europe for money?
Crops.
Which colony becomes the heart of the viceroyalty of new Spain?
Mexico
Conquistadors meaning.
Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered and claimed large amounts of land for Spain in the Americas and gained wealth and glory for themselves.
what was the Northwest Passage?
It was a short cut to trade with Asia.
What were the people of Spain called that explored Tenochtitlan?
Conquistadors.
What was the trade route between Europe, Africa, and America called?
The Triangle Trade.
What was one of the main goals of the Conquistadors?
To convert natives to the Catholic faith, or to gain wealth and glory for themselves in Spain.
Occupation meaning.
When another country's army enters and controls another country or land.
Where did La Salle's men land and end up building Fort St. Louis?
Matagorda bay.
What was the tribe called in the Tenochtitlan?
There were the Aztec tribe.
What bad thing from Europe was brought to the new world?
Diseases.
Why was Tenochtitlan so appealing to Cortes and the Spanish?
There were great qualities of Gold, Silver, and Jewels.
Scouting Party meaning.
A group of people sent out to search for something.
What were the three main problems La Salle's expedition faced?
One was his difficult attitude.
Pirates and shipwrecks.
And Spaniards captured on the four ships.
Why did Christopher Columbus explore the new world?
God, Gold, Glory.
As a result in war what two places traded?
Middle East, and Europe.
What happened in Tenochtitlan in 1521?
Cortes' army took Tenochtitlan in a bloody battle.
Viceroy meaning.
A Spanish official who rules in the name of the king or queen.
Where did La Salle set sail from with his supplies and when?
He set sail from France in 1684 with four ships and 280 people.