The Columbian Exchange
This term describes the transfer of foods, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These are the similar motives, or reasons, Ponce de Leon and Hernan Cortes had for exploring.
What is seeking riches or looking for gold?
Unlike most conquistadors, this explorer urged Spain to treat Native peoples more humanely.
Who was Cabeza de Vaca?
Founded in 1565, this Florida city is the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
Though common in Asian cuisine today, this spicy crop originally came from the Americas.
What is the chili pepper?
These three advantages helped the Spanish defeat the Aztecs.
What are superior weapons, horses, and native allies?
For these similar motives, or reasons, De Soto and Coronado explored North America.
What is seeking riches, particularly gold?
Based on historical accounts, this was the main danger faced by colonial St. Augustine.
What were attacks from the British and French?
These new American foods improved European health and helped increase Europe’s population.
What is the introduction of American crops?
After conquering the Aztecs, the Spanish destroyed this capital and built Mexico City over it.
What is Tenochtitlán?
Spain based its claim to California on the voyages of this explorer.
Who was Juan Cabrillo?
This disease struck explorers who lacked vitamins, specifically vitamin C in their diet.
What is scurvy?
This was the main effect of the Columbian Exchange on the Taino people.
It destroyed them, mostly by bringing diseases for which they had no resistances to.
High mountain cities made this civilization believe they were safe from Spanish invasion.
Who were the Incas?
He was the first European to record seeing the Mississippi River.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
These "floating gardens" helped feed the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.
What are chinampas?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire and captured Cuzco.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
He claimed much of the American Southwest for Spain and was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.
Who was Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
This was Moctezuma’s main challenge in ruling the Aztec Empire.
What is ruling many groups who disliked being under Aztec control?