Explorers
The New World
Mercantilism
Conquistadors
Vocab
100

The Columbian Exchange is named after him.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

These two continents make up the New World.

What are North and South America?

100

It's an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

What is Mercantilism?

100

He was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.

Who was Hernan Cortes?

100

This is the science or art of map making.

What is cartography?

200

He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

This is the transfer of plants, animals, disease, culture, and ideas between the Old and New World.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200

The route which traded people, raw materials, slaves, and manufactured goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is the Triangular Trade? (will accept the Transatlantic Slave Trade or the Slave Trade)

200

He founded the city of Lima, Peru.

Who was Francisco Pizarro?

200

This was the voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

What is the middle passage?

300

North and South America are named after him.

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

300

This European country established colonies in Brazil.

What is Portugal?

300

A country's wealth is measured by how much of this it had.

What is gold? (will accept silver)
300

He is known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama.

Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?

300

These are conditions that effectively attract people to new locations

What are pull factors?

400

They were the first Europeans to visit North America.

Who are the Vikings?

400

This wiped out a majority of the indigenous population in the New World.

What is disease? (will accept smallpox or cocoliztli)

400

Mother countries provided these to their colonies in exchange for raw materials.

What are manufactured goods?

400

He was the governor of Guatemala and was known as the "Sun God" because of his blond hair.

Who was Pedro de Alvarado?

400

These are any international transaction that causes goods to flow into a country and any international transaction that causes goods to flow out of a country.

What are imports and exports?

500

He searched for the mythical "Fountain of Youth".

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

500

These were Spaniards, born in Spain, who were at the top of the Encomienda System.

Who are peninsulares?

500

Countries can achieve a favorable balance of trade by doing this.

What is exporting more than they're importing? (will accept selling more than they're buying)

500

He was a clergyman who petitioned the Spanish Crown against the abuses of indigenous people

Who was Bartolome de las Casas?

500

These were city-states that flourished in Italy and the Mediterranean that built fleets of ships both for their own protection and to support extensive trade networks

What are merchant republics?

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