European Explorers
European Exploration
Mercantilism
Maps
Colonial Latin America
100
The first to cross the Atlantic Ocean and "discover" new lands
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Marco Polo traveled this land route that increased European interest in Asia
What is the Silk Road?
100
A favorable balance of trade
What is having more exports than imports?
100
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
The largest cultural contributions of Spain to South America
What are the Spanish language and Catholicism?
200
A Portuguese Explorer who sailed to the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
200
The three main goals of the early, European explorers
What are the 3 G's: Gold, Glory & God?
200
The transport/voyage of enslaved Africans to the American colonies
What was Middle Passage?
200
What is Europe?
200
The impact of the Conquistadors on the Aztecs and Incas
What is the destruction of native cultures/societies?
300
Spanish explorer who established the capital of Lima (in South America)
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
New ships that could travel much faster
What are caravels?
300
Exchange of plants, animals and disease.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
What is South America?
300
The largest factor in the decrease of the Native American population
What is disease?
400
Sailed around the tip of Africa to reach India
Who is Vasco da Gama?
400
A Portuguese prince who established a school for sailors
Who is Prince Henry (the Navigator)?
400
The name of the place where raw materials were mined/harvested and sent to Europe to turn into manufacture goods.
What are colonies (the Americas)?
400
What is Triangular Trade?
400
Name of the missionaries that converted the native populations to Catholicism
Who are the Jesuits?
500
The first to circumnavigate the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
The three factors that helped Cortez conquer the Aztec Empire
What are technology (guns/cannons), allies, and disease?
500
Name of the entity where wealthy investors shared the cost and profits of overseas exploration
What are joint-stock companies?
500
The ocean between Europe, Africa and the Americas
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Names of the two forced systems of labor?
What are encomienda and mita?