Christopher Columbus
This is the year that Columbus was born
What is 1451
These were the names of Columbus' three ships
What were the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
What is the transfer of food, people, culture, ideas, religions and diseases from the Old World to the New starting in 1492?
These were the lands that Spain claimed as a result of Columbus' voyages
What is the Caribbean and large chunks of America?
Traveling to learn about new lands
What is exploration?
What is Spain?
This was the number of voyages made to the New World by Columbus
What was four?
These were the three continents connected by the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Americas, Europe and Africa?
This was how Columbus' voyage lead to increased European colonization
What is that his voyages encouraged other Europeans to explore and settle in the Americas?
Original or native people to a region
What is Indigenous?
What was to find a westward passage to India to trade?
This was where Columbus actually landed on his first voyage
What was in the Bahamas in the Caribbean?
These were some examples of food that were exchanged from the New World to the Old World.
What are potatoes, tomatoes, corn, chocolate, tobacco, squash and beans?
This was the role that Columbus' voyages played in the American slave trade?
What is that they helped to start systems that led to the Atlantic slave trade such as the encomienda system?
Forced labor system (slavery)
What is the encomienda system?
This was the year of Columbus' first voyage
What was 1492?
This was why Columbus believed that he had reached Asia
Because he believed the Earth was smaller in diameter than it was? Because the Americas were not on any known world atlas at the time?
These were some examples of food and animals that were exchanged from the Old World to the New World.
What was horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, wheat, sugar, sheep, chickens and diseases?
These were two long-term consequences of European colonization in the Americas.
What are European domination, loss of Indigenous culture and slavery?
Taking land by force
What is conquest?
What was reactive arthritis which led to congestive heart failure?
This was the impression that Columbus had of the Taino people
That the could be used as potential servants and converts rather than people in their own right with complex societies?
This was one positive effect of the Columbian Exchange
This is why historians debate how Columbus should be remembered historically.
What is because of his role in exploration, but also because of his role in the harm caused to the Indigenous people?
Land controlled by a different country
What is a colony?