Explorers/Exploration
Where was Columbus trying to sail to from Europe?
What is Asia?
The Old Wolrd
What is Europe?
Who conquered the Aztec people?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
A navigational tool used by sailors to determine location based on stars.
What is the astrolabe?
What was Tenochtitlan?
What European Country was the first to send out explorers?
What is Portugal?
The New World
What is the Americas
What were three reasons Spanish Conquistadors had for colonization?
The exchange of ideas, crops, animales, and disease between the Old and New Worlds became knows as this?
What is the Columbian Exchange.
The friendliest colonists in the Americas
Who are the French?
Which explorers are said to have circumnavigated the globe?
Animal that greatly increased labor and transportation in the New World
What are horses?
How did the French make their living in the New World?
What is the fur trade?
What does it mean to sail around the world?
What is circumnavigate?
While Spain had control of most of South America, Portugal was left with only one colony
What is Brazil?
What continent 'blocked' Columbus' direct water route to Asia?
What is North America?
The start of the Columbian Exchange?
What is 1492?
What country is the modern day Aztec Empire?
What is Mexico?
Spanish explorers are known as what?
What are Conquistadors?
The holiday that incorrectly celebrates Columbus as the first to discover America?
What is Columbus Day?
Dias was the first to sail around what obstacle?
What is the horn of Africa
Why was the Columbian Exchange important?
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What did colonizers bring with them that killed many of the Native Americans?
What is disease?
A disease that affected mostly sailors and explorers.
What is scurvy?
This country sponsored Columbus during his journeys
What is Spain?