Exploration
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People
100

What about the Caravel Ship gave it the ability to sail into the wind and also sail in shallow water?

Triangular Sails and a Flat Bottom

100

Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas

Conquistadors

100

" Motivations for Exploration" of the Europeans

To find sea routes to develop trade with Asia

To spread Christianity and convert people

To learn more about Asia and its culture

100

What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?

Most Native Americans died from European Diseases

100

What explorer's expedition is given credit for circumnavigating the world?

Ferninand Magellan

200

Who were the first Europeans to establish colonies in the Americas?

Spanish

200

A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location

by charting the position of the stars

Astrolabe

200

What were the main reasons the Spanish were able to overthrow the Aztec Empire?

The Spanish had Horses and Guns

The Aztecs were weakend by smallpox and other diseases

The Spanish were aided by Aztec enemies

200

This line through the Atlantic Ocean allowed Spain to claim all lands to the west of this line.

Line of Demarcation

200

America was named for this explorer, who sailed to South America in 1501.

Amerigo Vespucci

300

Who were the first Europeans to sail to North america?

Vikings

300

Reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic

Church

Protestants

300

Which of the following were types of settlements built by the Spanish in the Americas?

Pueblos

Presidios

Missions

300

What did the Spanish call their vast empire in the Americas?

New Spain

300

Who was the ruler of the Aztec Empire in the early 1500's?

Montezuma II

400

Who discovered a "New World" in the Bahamas, on an island that they named San Salvador?

Christopher Colombus

400

A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of

crop for profit

Plantation

400

Which of the following describe the French explorers?

Fur Traders

Missionaries

Explorers

Treated Native Americans Decent

400

This was a religious reform movement started by Martin Luther protesting practices of the Catholic Church in 1517.

Protestant Reformation


400

Who was the first Spanish military leader that led the Conquistadors expedition to the Americas and conquered the Aztecs?

Hernán Cortés

500

The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and

1500s is called the

Columbian Exchange

500

The boundry between Spanish and Portuguese territories in

the New World

Line of Demarcation

500

What people groups did we talk about that game over? (give at least three)

Vikings

Spanish

Portuguese 

Europeans

French

500

What colony was established by John White in present-day Virginia and mysteriously disappeared? (Lost Colony)

Roanoke

500

What Spanish military leader conquered the Inca civilization?

Francisco Pizzaro

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