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Columbian Exchange
European Explores
European Rivals
100
The exchange of plants and animals betweeen Europe and the americas
What is the "Columbian Exchange"?
100
Discovered America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This country formed the "East India Company" to compete with the English and Portuguese for Indian Ocean trade routes.
Who are the Dutch?
200
To gain wealth
What is the goal of European exploration?
200
The Spanish Conqueror of Mexico
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The Dutch formed the "West India Company" to compete with the Spanish and Portuguese in these lands
What is the Americas?
300
When Columbus landed in America he created a colony for this country
What is Spain?
300
He found a water way to the Pacific ocean by passing through a small water passage the bears his name
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
The colony of "New Netherlands" stretched from the mouth of the Hudson river as far north as this state capital of Albany.
What is New York?
400
The right of land owners to use Native Americans as laborers
What is "Encomienda"?
400
He explored the New England coast line of America for the English
Who is John Cabot?
400
This European power house founded colonies in Virginia and Massachusettes Bay.
Who are the English? Who is England?
500
Small pox, Measels, and Typhus
What are the diseases that killed most of the Native Americans?
500
His letters describing the new lands lead to the use of his name in the naming of the Americas
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
This European country colonized what is part of Canada and Louisiana.
What is France?