Explorers
Explored for Spain, incorrectly known for "discovering" America
Who is Columbus?
What did these goals lead to?
1. To expand into new lands
2. To acquire raw materials and resources
3. To spread Christianity
What is The Age of Exploration?
A 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight.
Name 1 piece of superior technology brought to the New World by the Europeans to dominate the natives.
What is gun, horses, or steel.
Someone who is born in a country; the first inhabitants of a region or area.
What is Indigenous?
"The Navigator" who built a sailing school in Portugal to develop faster ships, new sailing equipment, and more accurate maps.
Who is Prince Henry "The Navigator"?
Disease, starvation, poor maps and navigational tools were all obstacles faced by who?
What are explorers?
Where the first slaves in North America arrived.
What is Virginia?
What technological advancement in sailing resulted in new and improved sailing vessels?
What is the construction of caravels (large ships with lateen sails)?
A person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
Where did Christopher Columbus's first voyage land? (Specific Name)
Hispaniola
Which European country was the first to send out explorers?
What is Portugal?
Name the 2 nations that established settlements in South America in the 1500s.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
What is a settlement in a distant land whose citizens keep close ties to their parent country?
What is a Colony?
The science of determining the course, position, and distance traveled by a ship.
What is navigation?
First explorer to attempt to circumnavigate the earth
Who is Magellan?
What was the main problem the Spanish faced in trying to enslave Native Americans?
What is disease?
True/False:
By the 1400s, Spain, Portugal, England, and France had all found water routes to Asia.
What is False?
Name 3 of the main reasons for conquest in the New World by Europeans.
What is spreading Christianity (God), gold and glory?
To sail all the way around the Earth.
What is circumnavigate?
Italian explorer working for England who explored North America.
Who is John Cabot?
A policy of extending rule over peoples and other countries through military force and soft power.
What is imperialism?
This involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas
What is the slave trade?
A policy of territorial or economic expansion.
What is expansionism?
Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.
What is ethnocentric?