European Exploration
This European country gained the most territory in the Americas.
What is Spain?
________ was the first person to claim lands in America for Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was a period in European history commonly associated with art and new forms of thinking. Its name translates to rebirth.
What is the Renaissance?
This group of Native Americans was known for their fierce military might, and their capital of Tenochtitlan.
Who are the Aztec?
These were men sent by the Spanish to lead military expeditions in the Americas.
What are conquistadors?
This is the name given to the Americas by Europeans when they discovered them.
What is the New World?
_________ is a form of government in which people rule themselves, coined in Ancient Greece.
What is Democracy?
This was a deadly disease brought in by traders from Asia that swept across Europe, killing thousands.
What is the Black Death?
Nature played a big role in this particular part of Native American culture.
What is religion?
This nation was known for taking territories in mostly present-day Canada and parts of the US.
What is France?
This Viking is known for being the first European man to discover North America in the year 1000.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
________ is a device used by sailors to help tell their ships location based off the position of the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
These men were the Greek philosophers responsible for enlightening and promoting free thinking to people in Europe.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
There were about 300 languages spoken in North America at the time of European contact; they were separated into 29 groups called.
What are language families?
This man was known for conquering the mighty Incan empire in South America with fewer than 400 men in his army.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This was a treaty signed by Portugal and Spain that moved a certain line 800 miles further West, giving Portugal more territory in Atlantic.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The _________________ divided the Atlantic Ocean granting the Western parts to Spain and the Eastern half to Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
These were a series of wars that were led by Christians in Europe, where they set out to reclaim the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This was the tracing of ancestry through the mother, not the father. It was used by the Pawnee and many other Native American tribes.
What is a matrilineal society?
This practice gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work for them, in return for protection.
What is the encomienda system?
This was known as the transfer of goods, people, and diseases between Europe, the Americas, and Africa across the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
____________ was a man responsible for advances that made exploration more successful, and helped Portugal become a leader in world exploration.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This system, used in the Middle Ages, was where nobles would hire knights for protection and battle and pay them in land.
What is feudalism?
This was a political alliance formed between the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca tribes. This alliance helped to keep peace and protect their territories.
What is the Iroquois League?
This was a document usually given to nobles, or those of high status, to go and start a colony in the Americas.
What is a charter?