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Trade with Asia over land usually meant you were traveling this route.
What is the Silk Road?
Columbus returned to Spain with slaves, exotic plants and a little bit of this.
What is gold?
To get rich quick, Europeans needed to get to this place quickly and back quickly.
What are the East Indies?
The trading between Europeans and Native Americans is known as this.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
This famous explorer was on Columbus's second voyage.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
To travel by sea, innovations, such as this device, helped sailors to know how far North or South of the equator they were.
What is an astrolabe?
Columbus the sailed the ocean blue in this year.
What is 1492?
When European explorers realized that the islands Columbus landed on were not the East Indies, they called it this instead.
What is the New World?
The Columbian Exchange included many plants that Europeans had not encountered before. These 8 items are some of them.
What are corn, peanuts, tomatoes, potatoes, pineapples, turkeys, tobacco, and most types of beans?
This explorer discovered that the Aztecs had gold and riches and sought to conquer them to claim them for Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
After Europeans began making religious pilgrimages, they came into contact with other peoples. Europeans then began to do this.
What is desire goods from other lands?
Columbus sailed with the Nina, the Pinta, and this last ship.
What is the Santa Maria?
Magellan died in 1522 when he tried to do this.
What is sail around the world?
The Columbian Exchange changed the whole planet. Because Europeans traveled the world, chili peppers made it to this region and is now a staple in their cuisine.
What is Asia?
In 1531, this Spanish Conquistador sailed to South America and conquered the Inca empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
This group of people lived on the islands that Columbus landed on.
Who are the Taino?
The Columbian Exchange provided a pathway to exchange this deadly side effect.
What is disease such as smallpox and measles?
This famous mountaintop city showed the skill of ancient Inca builders.
What is Machu Picchu.