Explorers
Explored for Spain, known for "discovering" America
Who is Columbus?
This is the name of a small, fast ship with triangular sails that helped explorers
What is a Caravel?
Europeans wanted a faster sea route to this continent for spices.
What is Asia
Name of the two continents discovered in the New World
What are North America and South America?
Europeans desired to spread this religion to new lands
What is Christianity?
Year of Columbus' first voyage
What is 1492?
This tool helped sailors use the stars to find their way.
What is an astrolabe?
This country was the first to send explorers to search for a sea route to Asia.
What is Portugal?
Group of people Columbus turned into slaves
Who are the Tainos?
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
People from Scandinavia who were the first Europeans to reach North America
Who are the Vikings?
What device helped sailors know which direction they were sailing?
What is a Compass?
Location where Columbus actually landed
What is the Bahamas?
The two main resources that were shipped to Spain from the Americas
What are Gold and Silver?
The three G's of exploration
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
Explorer who explored the Eastern coast of North America
Timekeeping device used to help with scheduling the crew and calculating the speed of the ship
What is a Mechanical Clock?
What is Spain?
The food, people, animals, and diseases that spread between the Old World and the New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Conquerors (Spanish-Americas) who used God to justify their attacks
Who are conquistadors?
Explorer of the Great Lakes
Who is Champlain?
Name of Colombus' three ships
What are the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Island where the Spanish built a permanent settlement
What is Hispaniola?
The two American Indian empires that had gold treasures which the Spanish desired
What are the Inca and Aztec empires?
Disease that wiped out large populations of Native Americans
What is Smallpox?