Why did the Spanish Explore? - Lesson 1
The explorer that traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 and landed in San Salvador.
Christopher Columbus
The Columbian Exchange was a trading network across which ocean?
The Atlantic Ocean
European Countries were in search of a seaway to Asia through North America called the _________ _________
Northwest Passage
A territory settled by people from another place, usually far away
Colony
The French explored the __________________ river into the Great Lakes in search of the Northwest Passage
St. Lawrence
Christopher Columbus was trying to reach _____________ on his first expedition.
China or the "East Indies"
What was a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange?
Slavery and disease
The Dutch are from a country called _____________ and settled the area along the Hudson River near present-day New York City.
The Netherlands
The word that means "the science of guiding a boat"
Navigation
The word that means "containing many types of people or things"
diverse
This Explorer was Italian, but traveled the Silk Road to China in the 1200s and inspired others to begin exploring.
Marco Polo
What were most of the Spanish explorers/conquistadors in search of in the "New World?"
Gold and Power
Canada
To declare that a place belongs to one's country upon arrival at the place
Claim
New York City was called _____________ when it was first established by the Dutch.
New Amsterdam
The Americas are said to be named after this explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci
The French didn't find a Northwest Passage or gold, but instead focused their attention on attaining access to trading for ____.
Fur
people who buy and sell goods
merchants
The Spanish word for "conqueror" that described many of the Spanish explorers in Central and South America.
Conquistador
Name two of the tools, or technological advances, that helped make the Spanish and Portuguese adventures possible
Astrolabe, Compass, Stern Rudder, Printing Press, Carrack, Sextant, Chronometer
Name one of the two major empires that the Spanish conquered in Mexico and South America
Aztecs in present-day Mexico
Incas in the Andes Mountains of South America
The Lost English Colony in present-day North Carolina was on an island called __________________.
Roanoke
defense to diseases developed by the immune system
Resistance
Why did Europeans want to find a Northwest Passage?
A shortcut to the riches of Eastern Asia