Vocab Words
A Spanish conqueror
What is a conquistador?
This explorer intended to sail to Asia/India, but made 4 voyages to the Caribbean Islands
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is wealth or riches?
This is the name of a ship that was lighter, faster, and had other structural improvements over other ships
What is the caravel?
Three continents that were known as the Old World.
What is Europe, Asia, and Africa?
A person who gives money to support another person or cause
What is a patron?
This explorer was a famous Viking who found a settlement in modern day Canada
The group that were the first Europeans to sail to North America because they wanted to settle in new lands
Who are the Vikings?
An instrument that measured height of the sun or a star and how far you were from the equator
Areas that were known as the New World
What is North and South America? Also accept 'The Americas'
A person who buys and sells goods from Asia
What is merchant?
This explorer's ship made it around the world even though the explorer themselves died in battle.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The cause for Spain's rulers agreeing to pay for expensive expeditions.
What is they needed money to pay for war?
The process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land
What is Navigation?
These animals came to the Americas from the Old World and helped Native Americans (5 main animals)
What are horses, cows, goats, pigs, and chickens?
A settlement or area far from the country that rules it
What is a colony?
This explorer was seen as a God to the Aztecs, but took over their empire and built Mexico City
Who is Hernan Cortes?
One of the diseases that were spread to the Native Americans when the Europeans came to the New World
What is small pox?
The tool invented by the Chinese to help sailors know which direction they are going.
What is the magnetic compass?
This crop was grown widely on plantations and while it helped people, it also lead to forced labor or slavery.
What is sugarcane?
A group of nations or peoples ruled by a single group or leader
What is an empire?
This explorer crossed the Indian Ocean and reached India.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
The name of the colony that formed in North America when Spain was ready to settle there.
What is New Spain?
The year that Prince Henry opened his navigation school
What is 1419?
This was also exchanged between the East and West Hemispheres that led to the exchange of things like language, religion, clothing, and other practices that are still exchanged today?
What is culture?