Explorers
Founded America and claimed it for the Spanish
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is an instrument used to track direction
What is a compass?
City known as the capital of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
Country that Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Chaplain represented
What is France?
The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the old and new world
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Portuguese prince who funded schools for navigation in Portugal
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
The "Three G's" that motivated explorers during this time period
God, Glory, Gold
Person that was emperor of the Aztecs when they were conquered by the Spanish
Who is Montezuma II?
Name of the three ships Columbus sailed with on his first expedition to the Americas
What is Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
The approximate time period of the Age of Exploration
What is 1450-1750?
This person claimed Brazil for Portugal
Pedro Alvares Cabral
A system in which government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer
What is mercantilism?
Immediate impact of Columbus exploring the Americas
What is tension between Portugal and Spain?
Main accomplishment of Ferdinand Magellan?
What is first person to circumnavigate the globe?
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He suggested that America was a new continent and that Columbus founded a new area and wasn't going to Asia
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Ships with triangular sails which allowed ships to sail against the wind and rudders at the back to improve steering
What is a caravel?
Describe what the Treaty of Tordesillas did
What is.. drew a line of demarcation, Spain entitled to everything to west and Portugal entitled to everything east of the line
Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the modern-day US state for the Spanish
What is Florida?
Reason why Spain and England started a war
What is Sir Francis Drake looting ships?
He explored the East coast of Africa and India. Found a sea route from Portugal to India
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Brass instrument used to sight the star so sea captains could calculate latitude
What is an astrolabe?
Three reasons how the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs (Name 2)
What is superior weaponry, enlisting help of Natives, and disease?
Promises that Columbus said his exploration would do for Spain (Name 2 of 3)
What is great riches, new territory, spread of Catholicism?
Name the four teams in the men's frozen four
Who are Minnesota, Minnesota State, Denver, and Michigan?