Explorers
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail all the way around Africa to India.
Compass
Name one animal introduced to the New World by Europeans.
Horse, pig, cattle, sheep, goat, etc.
Hernando De Soto's men shocked Natives because they thought that his men riding on horses were what?
Gods / Sent from Gods
This Aztec city fell to Hernan Cortes in 1521.
Tenochtitlan
This Italian sailed for Spain in 1492 and mistakenly thought he had reached Asia.
Christopher Columbus
This instrument measured stars and the sun to determine latitude.
Astrolabe
Name one crop from the New World that became important in Europe.
Maize (corn), potato, tomato, chili, cacao, cassava, etc.)
At first, the Iroquois pitied the French - but later saw them as wanting to do what?
On the ruins of the ancient Aztec capital city, Spain built this city.
Mexico City
This conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortes
This Flemish mapmaker created a famous map projection in 1569 which is still used by most maps to this day.
Gerardus Mercator
What was the most devastating impact on indigenous people once Europeans arrived.
Diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza, etc.)
Why were some Aztecs frightened to challenge Hernan Cortes when he and the Spanish showed up to the New World?
Some thought that the Spanish were Gods
Who ended up having most of the power once Europeans took control of native peoples lands?
Europeans and the elite (wealthy)
This explorer sailed for Portugal and was the first to realize that the New World wasn't actually Asia, but an entirely new continent
Amerigo Vespucci
This type of ship was small, sturdy, and could sail against the wind.
Caravel
This New World crop became essential to helping feed some of Europe's poorest and toughest countries to grow food in.
Potato.
Richard Hakluyt claimed Natives wasted land because they lacked this.
Christianity and proper use of land.
Name one negative impact on the New World, and one positive impact on the Old World once Europeans made their way over to the Americas.
negative: diseases, enslavement, land taken, rodents, etc.
positive: more land, new crops to feed back home, new gold, new people to exploit
This English explorer sought a Northwest Passage to Asia and claimed lands for England.
John Cabot / Giovanni Cabotto
Name one problem sailors still faced even with compasses and map.
Maps may not be accurate, compasses didn't work sometimes, can easily malfunction. No stars visible, etc.
The Columbian Exchange led to this forced labor system bringing millions of Africans to the Americas
Transatlantic slave system.
John White's drawings portrayed Natives this way to encourage colonization and to get more money and supplies sent by the king of England.
Peaceful, welcoming and weak.
This system forced Native Americans to do labor for Spanish colonists, often in mines or on plantations.
Encomienda System