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Christopher Columbus
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People
Spain's Empire
Miscellaneous
100
The continent he though he landed on.
What is Asia?
100
Narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water.
What is a straight?
100
First explorer to circumnavigate the entire Earth.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
They were at the bottom of the Spain's social economic class.
Who are Native Americans and Africans?
100
Religious conflict in Europe during the 1500's were between which two religions?
What is Roman Catholics and Protestants?
200
The country he thought he landed on?
What are the Indies?
200
To travel around the entire Earth.
What is circumnavigate?
200
Spanish conquistador whose expedition led to the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
Solider-adventurers are called this.
What are Conquistadors?
200
When the mother country controls another to make themselves wealthy and powerful, it's because of this government system.
What is mercantilism?
300
The date Columbus' crew spotted land.
What is Oct. 12, 1492?
300
Land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans.
What is Encomienda?
300
Explored Canada and most of northeastern U.S. states; was funded by the Netherlands.
Who is Henry Hudson?
300
The continent Spaniards shipped in slaves from when Native Americans began to die off from diseases.
What is Africa?
300
The French went after these instead of gold, like the Spaniards.
What are fur and fish?
400
They were at the top of the Spanish social class system.
Who were peninsulares?
400
German mapmaker who was remembered for first realizing America was not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
The Spaniards, thanks to encomiendas, had the right to demand these from Native Americans.
What are labor or taxes?
400
When animals began becoming extinct, Europeans became interested in this instead of their goods.
What is North American land?
500
The country he was born in and the country that funded his expeditions.
What is Italy and Spain?
500
French for "runners of the woods."
What is Coureurs de Bois?
500
First European to sail the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
Two of the four reasons the Spaniards were successful in obtaining Native American land.
What are: Alliances w/ NA; advanced weapons; widespread disease; conquistadors being savage?
500
The three countries that financed expeditions for a northwest passage Spain lost its control in the New World.
What are England, France and the Netherlands.