Columbus and the Taino
The Columbian Exchange
The Impact of Columbus
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Who was the explorer who had an idea of how to reach the Indies (from Spain) faster and for less money?
Christopher Columbus
100
What is a settlement far from the country that rules it called?
a colony
100
What explorer is America named after? He was the first person to call the Americas a "new world".
Amerigo Vespucci
200
What is a journey made for a special purpose called?
Expedition
200
What is the movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere called?
the Columbian Exchange
200
In what year did Amerigo Vespucci call America a "new world"?
1502
300
Who were the people who paid for an expedition to find a faster and cheaper way to the Indies?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
300
What was a bad thing that Europeans brought to the Americas?
disease and germs
300
By what year did explorers and settlers from Spain, Portugal, England, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands come to America?
by the 1600s
400
What was the old name of the location that Christopher Columbus thought was the Indies?
Bahamas Islands
400
What was a sweet crop grown in America that brought huge profits for the Spanish people?
sugar cane
400
What dangerous and sometimes deadly thing did explorers and settlers do to Native people to get their land?
fought them and or killed them
500
What was the new name of the location where Columbus thought he had reached the Indies?
West Indies
500
What was the religion that was brought to America by the Spanish that caused Native groups' way of life to disappear?
Christianity
500
Which explorer showed the way for Europeans to come to the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
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