Spanish Colony in The Americas
_______ Built a huge empire across North and South America.
Spain
What did the Spanish build to defend their claims and protect their treasure ships from pirates.
Strong fortresses and towns.
The movement of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe is known as this.
Columbian Exchange
This Italian navigator was funded by Spain in 1492 to find a new sea route to Asia, but landed in the Americas instead.
Christopher Columbus
The 5 Themes of Geography include Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and ______.
Region
______ _______ were the kings and queens who ruled Spain.
Spanish Monarchs
Catholic missionaries established these religious settlements throughout the colonies to build churches and convert Native Americans.
Missions
Crops like potatoes, corn, and tomatoes were brought from the Americas back to this continent.
Europe
Columbus sailed across this ocean with three ships named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. What ocean?
Atlantic Ocean
This key element on a map unlocks the meaning of symbols, colors, and shapes used on the page.
Legend or Key
The three main things Spanish monarchs wanted to do by expanding into America.
Expand their land, spread Christianity, and gain wealth.
A king or queen who rules a country.
Monarch
Spanish explorers brought these large animals across the Atlantic, which transformed transportation and hunting for many Native American tribes.
Horses
Thinking he had reached the East Indies in Asia, Columbus mistakenly called the native people he met by this name.
Indians
Mapmakers use this feature to show how a distance on a map compares to actual distance in the real world.
Scale
What is encomienda?
A Spanish colonial system that forced Native Americans to work for landowners.
Towns like St. Augustine gave Spain a strong starting point in the region to use for these two main purposes.
military posts and trading centers
Tragically, Europeans brought microscopic threats like smallpox to the Americas, which caused millions of Native Americans to get sick with this.
diseases
The period during the 1400s and 1500s when European sailors traveled the world to find new trade routes and lands is known as the Age of ______.
Exploration
Geographers divide the United States into 5 main regions based on shared features: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and ______.
West
Founded in Florida in 1565 to protect treasure ships from pirates, it holds the title of the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States.
St. Augustine
Native Americans were forced to do dangerous labor under the encomienda system on large farms called haciendas and in these deep places underground.
silver mines
The trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas was called the Triangular Trade because the trade routes formed the shape of a ______.
Triangle
The Spanish rulers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to pay for Columbus's journey in order to find gold, spices, and spread ________.
Christianity
Describing a city's exact location using latitude and longitude is absolute location, while describing it relative to another place falls under this Theme of Geography.
What is Location (or Relative Location)?