Explorers
First to discover the 'New World' in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
First European country to begin to colonize the Americas.
Spain
The Reformation prompted European countries to want to spread their version of what?
Christianity
This vegetable, brought to Europe from the America's would have an enormous impact on the population of Ireland.
Potato
This type of servitude often meant a person worked for seven years before obtaining their freedom.
Indentured Servitude
The two continents which formed the "New World" were named after this Italian explorer who discovered that they were a separate continent from India.
Amerigo Vespucci.
This Catholic European country was given Brazil and most of Africa and Asia to colonize, under the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Portugal
The Spanish were mainly motivated by what when exploring the 'New World'?
Gold/Wealth
This animal, brought to the Americas by Europeans, allowed the Indians to become nomadic.
The Horse
This Spanish system of labor was first used in the Americas, and granted landlords a certain number of natives to work on their land in exchange for a tax.
Encomienda system
This Spanish Conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire with less than 1000 Spanish troops.
Hernan Cortes
This Native American tribe inhabited modern day Peru and Chile in South America. Their fall to Spanish forces would enrich the Spanish Empire with enormous amounts of silver.
Incas.
The French were mainly in the Americas to do what?
Trade
This crop, brough to Europe from the Americas, would eventually become an important cash-crop of the South.
Tobacco
This was the massive depletion of the Native American population of the America's as a result of contact with the Europeans.
The Great Dying
This Portuguese sailor was the first to reach India in 1498, and establish a trade route between Asia and Europe.
Vasco da Gama
This European country enjoyed the best relationship with the natives it encountered, mainly as a result of it's reasons for exploration.
France
This country was the ultimate goal for European mariners to reach during this period.
India
The mining of this resource in South America significantly enriched the Spanish Empire and allowed it to fight a series of wars in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Silver
Coastal African states acted as __________ in facilitating trade of slaves for European firearms and rum.
middlemen
Members of this Spanish sailor's crew became the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1521, after he died after an attack by natives upon reaching the Philippines.
Ferdinand Magellan
This powerful civilization, based in what is today Mexico and Central America, fell to the forces of Spanish Conquistadores and their native allies.
The Aztecs
The rise of these in Europe prompted military and economic competition on a scale not before seen in Europe.
Nation-States
The arrival of enslaved Africans to the Americas contributed what important resource to triangle trade
Physical labor
This important resource was located off the coast of Eastern Canada by John Cabot, attracting sailors from many Western European nations to this area.
Fish.