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Vocabulary
Spanish
Columbus
North America
Miscellaneous
100
A statement that can be checked or proven.
What is a fact?
100
The reason why the spanish so easily conquered the Aztec.
What is they had better weapons and armor?
100
The first people that Christopher Columbus encountered when he reached land.
Who are the Taino?
100
What were Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, and Samuel Champlain looking for ?
What is Northwest Passage?
100
This caused millions of Indians to die.
What is disease?
200
A journey made for a special purpose.
What is an expedition?
200
Spanish conquerors who came to America were known as this.
What is conquistador?
200
Who paid for Columbus's first voyage?
Who is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
The English explorer who was sent to find the Northwest Passage.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
He went looking for a better way to Asia to get spices and silk.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
A kind of map that shows events and places from the past.
What is historical map?
300
The land that the government gave to colonists to encourage settlement in New Spain.
What is encomienda?
300
In what year did Columbus reach land outside of North America?
What is 1492?
300
The first colony that was started in North America was located here.
What is Roanoke?
300
He was a Portuguese sea captain in charge of the 1st circumnavigation of the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
Shares of ownership in a country.
What is stock?
400
He conquered the Aztec empire in 1521.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
400
What Columbus was seeking on his first voyage?
What is a shorter route to the Indies to find spices and silk?
400
The soldier who advised Queen Elizabeth I to find a colony in North America.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
400
The king of Spain passed the New Laws of 1542 after Bartolome de Las Casas said we should protect the rights of these people.
Who are Indians?
500
An official document giving a person permission to do something.
What is charter?
500
Missionaries in New Spain provided what 3 things for Indians.
What is food, shelter, religion?
500
The names of Columbus' three ships.
What is Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
500
The second governor of Roanoke colony.
Who is John White?
500
The term that describes the movement of people, plants, animals, and germs east and west across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Columbian Exchange?