European Exploration
Spain's Conquests
European Colonies
Explorers Part 1
Explorers Part 2
100
The growth of this paved the way for European exploration.
What is trade?
100
These centers of trade were towns built by Spaniards.
What are pueblos?
100
The name of the German priest responsible for nailing a list of complaints about the Catholic church on a local church door.
What is Martin Luther?
100
This explorer created the first Spanish settlement in Florida.
Who is de Leon?
100
He hoped that the Cape of Good Hope would lead to a new route to India.
Who is Dias?
200
A period was one of intellectual and artistic creativity.
What is the Renaissance?
200
These were religious communities built by the Spaniards.
What are missions?
200
The name of the movement Martin Luther began.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
200
This conquistador attacked and destroyed the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
200
He was the first to complete the sea route to India.
Who is da Gama?
300
Two of the four nation-states that led European exploration.
What is Spain? Portugal? England? France?
300
These were forts built by the Spaniards.
What are presidios?
300
A nation's power is based on this.
What is its wealth?
300
This explorer crossed the Mississippi into what is today known as Oklahoma.
Who is de Soto?
300
The Spaniard explorer who was the first to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Who is Balboa?
400
More accurate ones of these led to European exploration.
What are land and sea maps?
400
The Spaniards put Native Americans to work in these two kinds of plantations.
What are tobacco and sugarcane?
400
European nations sought these three valuable resources in North America.
What are gold, silver, and raw materials?
400
This conquistador attacked and destroyed the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
400
This sailor from Portugal started his "school of navigation."
Who is Henry the Navigator?
500
This piece of technology measured the position of the stars and helped early explorers find their way.
What is the astrolabe?
500
Two of the three reasons why the Conquistadors were so successful in the Americas.
What is new weapons/animals? Native Americans helped conquistadors? disease?
500
The reason why early nation states wanted to a sea route to Asia AND establish colonies in North America.
What is to trade?
500
A sailor for Spain, he named the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Magellan?
500
South America was named after this explorer.
Who is Vespucci?
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