Vocab Terms
The exchange of plants and animals between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa?
Columbian Exchange
A viking who sailed to the island of Newfoundland?
Leif Eriksson
What territories in the Americas did Spain control?
Southern North America, Central America, and much of South America.
Brought suffering while also bringing new products.
Christopher Columbus met these people when he arrived?
The Tainos
The voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas was known as the?
Middle Passage
The ruler of the Aztecs in the 1500s?
Moctezuma II
What happened to Spain after the Spanish Armada?
Power weakened.
Why was Columbus' first voyage important?
Spain's empire in the Americas included what country?
Mexico
The scattering of captured Africans across the New World?
African Diaspora
The first explorer to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Europeans wanted to travel to this region for their spices?
Asia.
In what way were politics present in the expansions of European empire?
A quest to gain wealth and power.
Who established colonies in the Americas?
The Dutch
Large farms or _______, that specialize in growing one type of crop for profit, were common in Spanish America.
Plantations
The conquistador who conquered the Inca?
Francisco Pizarro
What effects did slavery have on the cultures of West African countries?
A loss in male population.
Why did the Spanish turn to enslaved Africans as a labor force in the Americas?
Cheap labor to work the plantations.
These three ships set sail in America when Christopher Columbus arrived?
Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria.
Sir Walter Raleigh founded the colony of Virginia after receiving a _________, a grant to set up a colony, from the Queen of England.
Charter
The conquistador who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortez
Vikings were from this region?
Scandinavia.
Why was the encomienda system important to Spanish settlers?
Christopher Columbus discovered this island country on his arrival to the Americas?
The Bahamas.