Jacques Cartier claimed land for this country during his two trips to Canada in 1534 and 1535.
What is France?
100
Columbus's travels to the Americas created conflict between these two countries.
What were Spain and Portugal?
100
This Spanish conquistador led the destruction of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
100
Colonists in need of cheap labor turned to slaves from West Africa because the West African slaves had built up this to European diseases.
What is an immunity?
100
This device aided explorers in finding new continents by allowing ship navigators to check location by charting the position of the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
200
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe after he was killed in the Philippines.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
200
The Columbian Exchange was the transferring of these among Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
What were plants and animals?
200
This Indian woman helped defeat the Aztecs.
Who was Malintzin?
200
Enslaved Africans tried to cope with life in the Americas by seeking refuge in their families, art, dance, and this.
What is religion?
200
This was a special type of ship that featured triangular sails, an important advance in sailing technology.
What is a caravel?
300
He was the first European to discover a sea route to Asia
Who was Vasco da Gama
300
Columbus believed he could reach Asia by sailing in this direction.
What is west?
300
This was the conquistadors' biggest advantage in defeating the Aztec and Inca.
What was steel armor and weapons?
300
Slaves were used to work on these large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made enormous profits for their owners.
What is a plantation?
300
He was the governor of New Netherland who conquered New Sweden in 1655.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
400
He helped Portugal become a leader in world exploration.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
400
The Treaty of Tordesillas moved this 800 miles further west.
What was the Line of Demarcation?
400
Many people of this group died as a result of exposure to new diseases brought by European explorers and the Spanish conquistadors.
Who were the Native Americans?
400
This was the scattering of millions of enslaved Africans across the New World.
What is the African Diaspora?
400
He publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church with his ninety-five theses.
Who was Martin Luther?
500
Viking longships had an advantage over earlier vessels because the longship was more this.
What is stable?
500
Columbus sailed and claimed land for this country.
What was Spain?
500
After the conquistadors defeated the Aztec and the Inca, they helped to set up these settlements which were trading posts for commerce and sometimes served as centers of government.
What were pueblos?
500
Between the 1493 and the 1810 7.6 million African slaves made the journey from Africa to the Americas known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
This was a small colony on the Saint Lawrence River that opened trading routes for the French.