History periods
What was the Middle Ages?
What were the Portuguese?
The name Columbus gave Puerto Rico
What was San Juan Bautista?
Columbus three ships
What were the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María?
The Asian product that was important because it preserved food and added flavored
What are spices?
People who were born into a position of high social status
Who were nobles?
The brothers that supported Columbus on his voyage
Who are the Pinzón brothers?
The port from which Columbus left on his first voyage
What was the port of Palos?
The fort where Columbus left 39 sailors behind
What was La Navidad?
The plague that killed millions of people in Europe
What was the Bubonic Plague?
An alternate name for the 1400s because of all the suffering
What was the Dark Ages?
The Catholic Monarchs that supported Columbus
Who were King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I?
The fall of this city disrupted trade between Europe and Asia
What was Constantinople?
The imaginary line that marks the poles of the earth
What is the earth's axis?
Another name for the North Star
What is Polaris?
Time period when European countries set out on voyages to explore the world
What was the Age of Discovery?
The people groups expelled from Spain before exploration
Who were the Moors and the Jews?
The original name of San Salvador
What was Guanahani?
The contract between Columbus and the Spanish monarchs that detailed their rights and obligations.
What was the Capitulations of Santa Fe?
The trip on which Columbus discovered the island named Marigalante
Which was his second voyage?
The period of renewed interest in the arts and sciences
What was the Renaissance?
The natives that kidnapped the twelve Taíno women
Who were the Caribs?
The island of Juana
What is Cuba?
Where Columbus built a fort
What was Hispaniola?
The purpose of Columbus' second voyage
What was to colonize?