People
Colonies
Exploration
Groups of People
Vocabulary
100

They named America after me.

Amerigo Vespucci

100

The only colony in the New World belonging to Portugal.

Brazil

100

The first Europeans to reach the New World

The Vikings

100

Spanish conquerors

Conquistadors

100

A very large estate used for farming.

A plantation

200

I am given credit for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

What foods came from the New World? Name at least 3

artichokes, avocados, beans (kidney and lima), black walnuts, blueberries, cacao (cocoa/chocolate), cashews, cassava, chestnuts, corn (maize), crab apples, cranberries, gourds, hickory nuts, onions, papayas, peanuts, pecans, peppers (bell peppers, chili peppers), pineapples

200

This is what early British, French, and Dutch explorers were seeking.

What is the Northwest Passage?

200

What were missionaries 

Where Spanish priests lived/to spread Christianity

200

What English company had a monopoly over the slave trade?

Royal African Company

300

I explored twice; the first time for the Dutch, the second time for England

Henry Hudson

300

A group of people settled in a distant land who are still controlled by their Mother Country.

A colony
300

This nation had a monopoly on trade going in and out of the Middle East after the Crusades.

Italy
300

We lived in oval wigwams

Algonquin

300

The Viking colony in North America

Vinland

400

I conquered the Incan Empire

Francisco Pizarro González
400

Describe one result of the Columbian Exchange.

What is Native American population decreased / Global exchange of goods and ideas?

400

An all water route around North America.

The Northwest Passage

400

Highest social class in the Spanish colonies.  100% Spanish born in Spain.

Spainairds 

400

Gave Spanish settlers the right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans.

The encomienda

500

I was the first European to reach the Pacific through the New World

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

500

The river along which most of the settlements in New France were located.

The St. Lawrence River

500

What do they speak in Saint Domingue? (Haiti)

French

500

Part Spanish part American Indian

Mestizos

500

What percentage of enslaved people were sent to Brazil and the Caribbean islands

90%

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