Columbus
Explorers
Vocabulary
Columbian Exchange
Miscellaneous/ odds and ends
100
What country did Christopher Columbus sail for during his journey to America?
Spain
100
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes
100
This was found in the New World and is anything that people can use which comes from nature.
What is a natural resource
100
What three continents were involed in the Triangular Trade
What is Europe, Africa and North America
100

What was the shape of the sails that enabled explorers to sail into the wind?

What is a triangle

200
Why was Christopher Columbus attempting to do by sailing West?
What is find a route to India
200

What was Bartolomeu Dias' achievement?

What is sailing around the southern tip of Africa

200
What is meant when a person says "circumnavigate"
What is travel around the globe
200
This disease came from Europe to the New World and killed off millions of Native Americans
What is smallpox
200
Trade route between China and Europe
What is the silk road
300
What area did Christopher Columbus and his crew land on the first time they sailed West?
What is the Caribbean
300
This conquistador sailed from Spain and conquered the Inca
Who is Francisco Pizarro
300

What is the definition of The Columbian Exchange?

What is the exchange of plants, animals, ideas between the New World and Old World

300

The new trade system that dealt with slaves going from Africa to the Americas was called?

What is The Atlantic Slave Trade

300

Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?

A priest who disagreed with the treatment of Native peoples in the Americas and helped create laws to protect them

400
Christopher Columbus was born in this country
What is Italy
400
This explorer was the first to find a sea route to India
Who is Vasco de Gama
400
What is the definition of Balance of Trade?

What is the relationship of goods imported to goods exported

400

Coffee beans, cattle, chickens, onions, wheat, pigs, peaches came from....? (New/Old World)

What is the Old World

400

Which 2 countries sophisticated banking practices?

What is England and the Netherlands/Dutch?

500
Who financed Columbus' voyage to the New World
Who is Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
500
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate or travel around the whole world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
500

What is Mercantilism?

A system which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer

500
Glory and gold were two of the motives for exploration. What was the third?
What is conversion to Christianity (God)
500

The two labor systems the Spanish used in its colonies were called the encomienda system and.....?

What is the Mita System

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