Early Explorers
He was the first explorer to reach India.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
The movement of people, animals, plants, and cultures between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This tool measured the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
What is the Astrolabe?
This is the date that Christopher Columbus reached land on his first voyage.
When is October 12, 1492?
When it was introduced into the West Indies and elsewhere, it quickly became a profitable resource.
What is Sugar Cane?
This explorer was searching for the Fountain of Youth while exploring present-day Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
The introduction of these animals from Europe made life easier for Native Americans.
What are horses?
This type of ship was smaller and lighter than other ships. It used triangular sails to better control the wind.
What is the Caravel?
Leif Erikson founded a settlement in what is now Canada.
What is 1001?
By the 1600s, why did plantations in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Americas stop relying only on American Indian labor?
By this time, the Europeans started forcing enslaved Africans to do the work.
This Spanish conquistador led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Spanish explorers forced Native Americans to work on these under the most brutal conditions.
What are plantations?
This tool was used to tell latitude and longitude at sea.
What is the sextant?
This famous explorer sailed for Spain, but he was born in Italy.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Leif Erikson is the son of this Viking.
Who is Eric the Red?
This Spanish explorer led an expedition in the present-day southeastern US.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
Smallpox and Measles
What are the diseases that Europeans brought to the Native Americans?
This tool provided latitude at sea and an exact measurement of time.
What is the Chronometer?
This is when Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world.
When was 1519?
What is St. Augustine?
While searching for the rich kingdom filled with gold, silver, and jewels, he claimed land for Spain in the southwestern states, including present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
Who was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
Plants, animals, and diseases were not the only things shared during the Columbian Exchange. This was also shared.
What is culture?
This tool was from North Africa.
What is the astrolabe?
The Spanish built missions in villages and encouraged Native Americans to adopt this religion.
What is Christianity?
This Native American group met Columbus on his first voyage, and were given the name "Indians" by Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Tainos?