Voyage Details
What year did Columbus first sail to the New World?
What is 1492?
Columbus's voyages opened this ocean route.
What is the Atlantic Ocean route to the Americas?
European settlement eventually led to the founding of this modern nation.
What is the United States (or other American nations)?
The first native group Columbus encountered.
Who are the Taino?
Spain became wealthy from this metal found in the New World.
What is gold (or silver)?
Columbus sailed under the flag of this country
What is Spain?
A major consequence of Columbus’s arrival was the spread of this.
What is disease (e.g., smallpox)?
The Columbian Exchange introduced this European animal to the Americas.
What is the horse?
Native populations suffered from these European-born illnesses.
What are smallpox, measles, and influenza?
European countries established these in the Americas.
What are colonies?
This was the name of Columbus’s largest ship.
What is the Santa María?
Columbus claimed lands for Spain using this document.
What is the Spanish Crown's authority?
Name one American crop introduced to Europe after Columbus.
What is corn, potatoes, or tomatoes?
Columbus’s men treated native peoples in this way.
What is harshly or violently?
Crops like sugar and tobacco led to this economic boom.
What are cash crops or plantation economy?
Columbus believed he had reached this part of the world.
What is Asia/India?
The Taino people were forced into this kind of labor.
What is slavery/forced labor?
This global economic system grew due to colonization and trade.
What is mercantilism?
Native cultures and traditions were often replaced by this.
What is European culture or Christianity?
Columbus's discoveries increased this for Spain in Europe.
What is political power or prestige?
The other two ships Columbus sailed with.
What are the Niña and the Pinta?
The term for the exchange of goods and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Over time, native populations were reduced by up to this percentage.
What is 80-90%?
This system forced natives to work for Spanish colonists.
What is the encomienda system?
European diets changed due to imports of these.
What are new foods (like potatoes, corn)?
This monarch funded Columbus’s journey.
Who is Queen Isabella (and King Ferdinand)?
Columbus established this kind of European presence.
What is colonization?
Columbus’s voyages inspired this era of European expansion.
What is the Age of Exploration?
Native resistance was often met with this.
What is military force or violence?
Colonization led to the development of this forced labor trade.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
Columbus landed in this region first.
What is the Caribbean (specifically the Bahamas)?
This was Columbus’s initial purpose for his voyage.
What is finding a westward sea route to Asia?
This modern global consequence traces back to European colonization.
What is systemic inequality or global power imbalance?
Name one lasting impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples today.
What is cultural loss, poverty, or land displacement?
This religious group spread across the Americas.
Who are Christian missionaries (or Catholic Church)?