Explorers
Who sailed west from Europe in 1492 believing he’d reach Asia, but found the Americas instead?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Name one economic motive Europeans had for exploring new sea routes to Asia.
What is gaining wealth, spices, gold, or direct trade routes to Asia?
What is the term for the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What 1494 agreement divided the non-European world between Spain and Portugal?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What word describes a king or queen who rules a country?
What is a monarch?
Which Italian explorer realized the lands Columbus found were new continents, not Asia?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Why did the fall of Constantinople in 1453 push Europeans to explore by sea?
Because land routes became more expensive and dangerous after the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople.
Name one crop Europeans brought to the Americas.
What is wheat, sugarcane, horses, or cattle?
Which country claimed Brazil due to the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What is Portugal?
What fast ship did explorers use during the Age of Exploration?
What is a caravel?
Who conquered the Aztec Empire with the help of native allies and European weapons?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
What major new economic system was launched due to exploration, connecting distant continents?
What is the global economy or new global trade networks?
Name one crop or product brought from the Americas to Europe.
What are maize (corn), potatoes, tomatoes, cacao (chocolate), or tobacco?
What mythical water route were explorers searching for to reach Asia through North America?
What is the Northwest Passage?
What term describes native people belonging to a particular region?
What is indigenous?
Which explorer led an expedition into South America and conquered the Inca Empire?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Name two consequences of early European exploration for indigenous peoples.
What are diseases that killed millions and conquest that destroyed civilizations?
Which disease introduced by Europeans devastated Native American populations?
What is smallpox?
Who were the rulers of Spain who sponsored Columbus’s voyage?
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
What is the science of making maps called?
What is cartography?
Who searched for the Seven Cities of Cíbola and explored parts of the American Southwest?
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
Besides economic motives, what were two other reasons European rulers supported exploration?
What are spreading Christianity and gaining political power or national prestige?
Name two animals Europeans introduced to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange.
What are horses and pigs (also acceptable: cattle, sheep)?
What term describes a settlement ruled by a distant country?
What is a colony?
What word means “something handed down from the past that affects the future”?
What is a legacy?