Spanish Exploration
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to the New World in this year
What is 1492
What was the name of the vast area the French claimed, west of the Mississippi River
What is Louisiana?
What was the name of the Native Group encountered by Columbus on his first voyage
Tainos
What was the name of the Spanish Conquistador who discovered Florida on Easter Sunday?
Juan Ponce De Leon
What was the name of the Spanish king and queen in 1492
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Juan Ponce de Leon set out to find this rumored place
What is the Fountain of Youth?
What was the name of the fabled all water route, providing a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific
The northwest passage
How many ships did the Spanish send on Columbus's second voyage
17
What invention helped publicize the findings of Christopher Columbus and help officials learn of his discoveries?
Printing Press
What are the three G's that can be traced back to all European explorations, and define what they mean
God
Glory
Gold
What was the goal of Spanish Missionaries?
To try and convert as many people to Christianity as possible
This French city, the Capital of New France became one of the largest North American trade posts
Quebec
What was the name of the disease that killed an estimated 50-90% of Native populations
Smallpox
Peru
Christopher Columbus named one of the places he discovered "Hispaniola" what modern countries exist there today?
Haiti and Dominican Republic
Define Columbian Exchange
a transfer of foods and diseases between Europe and the New World
What was the name of the French explorer who first set out for the new world, and what river did he create a settlement near?
Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence River
How were the Spanish able to conquer the Natives so easily (4 things)
The Spanish had superior weapons and armor
The Spanish brought diseases
Spanish had help from oppressed people rising up against their rulers
Fighting and division among tribes
What was the name of the staple crop grown by Native Americans?
Maize / Corn
Compare and contrast the farming styles between the New World and the Old World in 1491 and before
In Europe, agriculture was a business, poor people tended the farms that the nobles owned, and utilized domesticated animals.
In the America's it was a means for survival. Not a business
What was the name of the three ships Columbus first sailed to the new world on?
Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria
Hunting and selling beaver fur
Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztecs in which modern day country?
Mexico
Why were Native Americans at such a high risk to contract European diseases?
because of their lack of domesticated animals and exposure to foreign diseases and zoonotic illnesses
What is the difference between a primary and secondary source document?
Primary Source Document was written by someone who went through the experiences, secondary sources are written by a historian or third party years later who did not experience the events