The transfer of goods which started with Columbus' explorations
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
A ship that was curved at both ends and built for speed
What is a Viking Longboat?
100
The Aztecs initially welcomed this conquistador because they believed he was a messenger from their gods.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
100
A huge fleet of war ships assembled by Spain in response to the English Sea Dog attacks.
What is the Spanish Armada?
100
A water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure
What is the Middle Passage?
200
An instrument that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars
What is an Astrolabe?
200
Juan Ponce de Leon explored Florida in search of this.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
200
The French explored and settled along the Mississippi river to do this.
What is establish the Fur Trade?
200
A disease that spread across Europe, killing an estimated 25 million people
What is the Black Death?
300
A document that gives a person permission to start a colony
What is a charter?
300
Members of his crew were the first to sail all the way around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This conquistador defeated the Inca Empire with fewer than 400 men in his army.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
300
This man reportedly purchased Manhattan Island for $24.
Who is Peter Minuit?
300
A new type of ship that used triangular sails that allowed it to sail against the wind
What is a caravel?
400
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
What are conquistadors?
400
He started a navigation school and sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
400
In order to tax the Native Americans, Spanish settlers must do these two things.
What is protect the Native Americans and convert them to Catholicism?
400
This explorer thought he had found the Northwest Passage but really only found a large bay in what is now northern Canada.
Who was Henry Hudson?
400
This gave Spanish settlers the right to tax Native Americans.
What is the Encomienda System?
500
Believers in this movement protested the Catholic Church's practices.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500
He searched for a Northwest Passage for England in exchange for a royal charter to any lands he found.
Who was John Cabot?
500
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored the southwest in search of these.
What are the Seven Cities of Gold?
500
Two points of extra credit to the team(s) that answers correctly...
There are currently _____ Democrats and _____ Republicans running for President of the United States in 2016.
4 Democrats
15 Republicans
500
An agreement between Spain and Portugal that gave Spain the right to colonize most of the New World