Columbus
The year that Columbus sailed West
What is 1492?
The name Spain gave its colony in the New World
What is New Spain?
The names of the lines that are vertical on maps
What are Longitude lines?
The century that Marco Polo set out on his journey
What are the 1300s?
Colombian Exchange traded goods back and forth between these two places
What are the New and Old Worlds?
Columbus was trying to reach this area of the world
What is Asia?
Spain built these to spread Christianity
What are Missions?
The lines that are Horizontal on maps
What are Latitude lines?
These goods would be some of the most profitable brought back by Marco Polo
What are Spices, Silk, and Tea?
The main goods sent over from Europe and Africa
What are Fruits and Livestock?
Columbus believed that the world was this
What is Round?
The soldiers sent to claim gold and land for Spain
What are Conquistadors?
This type of ship could sail against the wind
What is a Caravel?
The type of travel that Marco Polo used to get to Asia
What is Land travel?
The main goods sent back from the Americas
What are Vegetables and Tobacco?
This Queen funded Columbus' voyage
Who is Queen Isabella?
This man conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This instrument can help navigate using stars
What is an Astrolabe?
The three reasons the Europeans explored
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The Ocean the Exchange taking place over
The specific place in the New World that Columbus landed
What is Cuba?
These three states were included in Spain's colonies
What are California, Texas, and Florida?
The brightest star in the sky, that always points North
What is Polaris (North Star)?
Marco Polo would inspire others to search for this type of route
What is Water?
This was accidentally brought over by the Europeans
What is disease?