Columbus
Columbus embarked on a transoceanic journey on behalf of this European country.
What is Spain?
Name a country, other than Spain, that colonized the New World
Portugal, Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark
Natives were negatively impacted by the spread of __________, which greatly reduced their population.
What is disease?
This is the country that takes over a colony and uses it for raw materials.
What is the Mother Country?
This institution was the primary power in Medieval Europe
What is the Catholic Church?
Columbus sailed across this ocean to find a new trade route to Asia.
What is the Atlantic?
Name a technology that helped facilitate the Age of Exploration.
Caravel ships, printing press, new maps, compass, astrolabe, etc.
The reduction of indigenous populations led conquistadors to find new labor sources in the form of slaves from this continent.
What is Africa?
This is the place that is taken over by the Mother Country for its raw materials.
What is the colony?
This trade route connected West Africa and North Africa, and the primary goods traded on it were gold and salt.
What is the Trans-Saharan?
Columbus landed in this geographic region.
What is Central America? (Caribbean also accepted)
These were the primary motivators for exploration amongst Europeans.
What is god, glory, and gold
This exchange of plants, animals, and even diseases occured between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Mercantilism is best defined as...
when a Mother Country takes over a colony for its raw materials AND the colony purchases finished products from the Mother Country
This is the name of the first leader of the Mongol Empire
Who is Ghengis Khan?
Columbus mistakenly believed that these continents were the only ones on Earth (all but two).
What are Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica?
This Spanish explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Colonization is best described as...
When one group or country takes over another for its resources and labor.
These are the types of resources that are collected from the colony.
What are raw materials?
This is the historical period where Christian knights traveled to the Middle East to take over their Holy Land from Muslim Empires.
What are the Crusades?
Columbus landed in these Caribbean islands.
What are the Bahamas?
This man was the first explorer to round the southern tip of Africa
What is Vasco da Gama
Natives are also called this 'I' word.
What is indigenous?
These are the items that are sold back to the colonies.
What are finished products or manufactured goods?
This is the name of the floating gardens the Aztecs made to farm of Lake Texcoco?
What are chinampas?