Key Terms
What type of empire in Africa was based around modern-day Guinea and primarily traded people to the Europeans for guns and textiles?
Forest Empire
What was the name given to military commanders and explorers who claimed land and riches in the name of their respective monarchs?
Conquistadors
What were the "Three Sisters?"
Corn, Beans, and Squash
Who were the two main powers in Europe that arose in the 15th century?
Spain & Portugal
Mexico
Tribes
What was the name of the centuries-long conflict between Christians and Muslims in Spain?
Reconquista
What was the name of the land bridge that connected Asia to North America, which allowed early Native Americans to arrive on the continent?
Beringia
How many total voyages did Christopher Columbus set sail on?
Four
What Spanish explorer mapped out the coast of Florida?
Ponce de Leon
What treaty established a demarcation line through the middle of the globe that split the world between the Portuguese and Spanish?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Hernan Cortes
What was considered the "Highway of the Americas?"
Rivers
What are the three reasons for European Expansion?
Control of Trade
Control Land
Spread Christianity
Dona Marina, the Spaniards translator in Mexico, became known as who, according to Mexican folklore?
La Malinche
What person conquered the Inca Empire and allowed Spain to capture and control much of South America?
Francisco Pizarro
Encomienda System
List 3 of 4 reasons why the Norse Colony in Canada failed.
Limited Resources
Bad Weather
Food Shortages
Native Resistance
Who were the King and Queen of Spain who approved of Christopher Columbus' voyage?
Ferdinand and Isabella
What was the name for the conflicts that the Aztecs engaged in with neighboring populations?
Flower Wars
What was the capital of the Inca?
Cuzco
What was the name of the forced resettlement of Native Americans in Spanish-controlled lands in the Americas?
Congraciones
Leif Erikson and the Vikings discovered and founded a colony on which Canadian island?
Newfoundland
What are two of the three ways in which Europe expanded slavery in the Americas?
Use the Indigenous population for labor
Use indentured servitude from Europe
Import slaves from Africa to the Americas
What was the name for the military settlements that the Spanish established in the Americas?
Presidios