Guns, Germs, & Steel Episode 2
Exploration: Why It Matters
Who Really Discovered America?
The Columbian Exchange
Vocabulary
100
The main purpose for the Spanish conquistadors travel to South America in 1536.
What is for gold and/or glory?
100
A motive for European exploration.
What is Gold, Glory, or God?
100
This theory involves the discovery of large stones with holes in their center believed to be used as anchors; found off the coast of California.
What is the Chinese theory?
100
The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, and cultures between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from the occupying land.
What is a colony?
200
A weapon used by the Spanish conquistadors to defeat the Inca at Cajamarca.
What is a rapier (sword) or arquebus (gun)?
200
This is one of the many important inventions from the Age of Exploration that allowed for the new discoveries.
What is a compass, astrolabe, lateen sails, caravel, or cannon?
200
This theory involves belief that this group brought back the sweet potato and chickens to their homeland from South America.
What is the Polynesian theory?
200
A part of the exchange of plants from the Americas that became a staple in Italy.
What is a tomato?
200
The creation of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.
What is imperialism?
300
The Spanish conquistador credited for the conquest of the Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
An immediate result of the European Age of Exploration, A. Independence movements developed in Asia and Africa. OR B. European influence spread to the Western Hemisphere.
What is B?
300
This theory involves the trade of pottery with the people off the coast of Chile in South America.
What is Japanese theory?
300
This important animal is the reason for the most drastic change to Native Americans lives during the Age of Exploration.
What is the horse?
300
Theory that there was only so much value distributed around the world and once it was taken, no more would appear
What is mercantilism?
400
Atahualpa had his warriors leave these behind for the meeting with the Spaniards at Cajamarca.
What are weapons?
400
Name a reason why the Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empires so rapidly.
What is better weapons that were more advanced?
400
This theory involves a group crossing the Atlantic with a Catholic priest and settling in Mobile, Alabama.
What is the Irish theory?
400
The Age of Exploration led to a decline in this within the Americas.
What is population?
400
A time period used in history to describe events that happened before 1492.
What is Pre-Columbian?
500
the term Jared Diamond used to describe the European conquest of the Inca and other native civilizations.
What is an "accidental conqueror?"
500
Name of one important effect of the Age of Exploration?
What is Trade, Colonization, or Imperialism?
500
This theory involves a group of people from Asia coming to America before Columbus and mixing with the Cherokee tribe.
What is the Jewish or Hebrew theory?
500
A negative result of the Columbian Exchange that still has lasting effects to this day.
What is slavery or slave trade?
500
Reflecting a tendency to interpret the world in terms of European or Anglo-American values and experiences.
What is Eurocentrism?