Explorers
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in present-day Mexico. Name him
Hernán Cortés
Define "empire"
a group of many lands or people ruled by one government or leader
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of plants, animals, people, and ideas between the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa) and the New World (the Americas). Name one crop that came from the Americas to Europe.
corn, peanuts, pineapples, turkeys, tomatoes, and tobacco plants
In the early 1500s, Spain sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean to find new lands and routes. Name the ocean these explorers crossed.
Atlantic Ocean
This Spanish explorer explored the Andes Mountains in South America and claimed land for Spain; he is known for searching for cities of gold. He conquered the Incas.
Francisco Pizarro
What does the word "conquistador" mean?
a Spanish soldier or explorer who conquered lands in the Americas
horses, cattle, pigs, sheep
Spain built settlements and claimed large areas of land in the Americas in the 1500s. What is one reason Spain wanted to control land in the Americas?
gold, gain wealth, gain land
This Spanish navigator and conquistador explored parts of what is now the southeastern United States while searching for gold and the Fountain of Youth. Who was he?
Juan Ponce de León
What does the word "resistance" mean?
your body being able to fight against a disease.
Name one disease that Europeans brought to the Americas that had a large impact on Indigenous populations.
smallpox, measles, influenza
Explain in one sentence how contact between Spanish explorers and Native American peoples changed life in the Americas.
Contact brought new plants and animals and also brought diseases; it changed how people lived, worked, and what they ate.
He is known for being the first European to see the Mississippi River. He explored the SouthEast United States. Who is he?
Hernando de Soto
What does the word "conquest" mean?
Victories made by invading armies
Explain one positive effect and one negative effect of the Columbian Exchange
positive effect: new foods improved diets, fewr people starved, population grew (e.g., potatoes in Europe). Example negative effect: diseases brought by Europeans killed many Indigenous people
How is Tenochtitlán city, different today than when it was the Aztec capital?
Tenochtitlán was destroyed and replaced by Mexico City.
He searched for 7 cities of gold and claimed for Spain a lot of the U.S. Southwest. He was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.
Fransico Vasquez de Coronado
Define a "settlement"
town created by people in an area previously uninhibited by that people
Explain how certain animals in the Columbian Exchange improved the lives of the Americans
horses made it easier to hunt buffalo and travel faster.
Sheep gave new sources food and material to make clothes.
Explain why Hernan Cortés and his soldiers were able to conquer the Aztecs? What were their advantages?
They had horses and better weapons than the Aztecs.