3 G's and Exploration
This motivation involved gaining wealth, precious metals, and valuable resources.
What is Gold?
Hernan Cortes conquered this Mexican empire.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This festive vegetable (think of the season we are in right now!) originated in the New World
What are pumpkins?
This system allowed for the transfer of goods, animals, and foods between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The results of this conflict gave Spain a claim over much of Mexico.
What is the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire?
This motivation involved spreading Christianity to new peoples and regions.
What is God?
Francisco Pizarro conquered this South American empire.
What is the Inca Empire
This farm animal originated in the Old World. (multiple possible answers)
What are cows, pigs, horses, or chickens?
This system rewarded Spanish explorers with the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indigenous inhabitants of an area.
What is the encomienda system?
Competition between these two government-run companies led to many naval battles, such as the 1612 Battle of Swally.
What are the British and Dutch East India Companies?
This motivation involved gaining power, prestige, territory, and competing with other European countries.
What is glory?
This animal gave the Spanish and advantage that helped them defeat powerful Indigenous empires.
This was one of the most devastating effects of European contact.
What is disease?
European colonization, plantation agriculture, demand for labor, and Atlantic trade all contributed to the expansion of this system.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This conflict between England and France led France to hand over all of their North American territory to England and is considered to be an indirect cause of the Revolutionary War
What is the French and Indian War?
Portugal became an early leader in exploration partly because of its location on this body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This type of conflict weakened the Inca empire and likely contributed to the Spanish's successful conquest.
What is a civil war?
Increased diversity in diet caused by the Columbian Exchange had this beneficial effect in Europe.
What is population increase or increased life expectancy?
This economic system encouraged European countries to export more goods than they imported and accumulate wealth, especially through control of colonies and trade.
What is Mercantilism?
This conflict was the first public debate in European history to discuss the morality, rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers.
What is the Valladolid Debate?
This completion of this Christian reconquest in Iberia allowed the Spanish empire to invest heavily in exploration.
What is the Reconquista?
This gave Europeans advantages in efforts to conquest.
What are guns, disease, armor, horses, or iron weapons?
This plant that is the main ingredient in a popular morning drink originated in the New World.
What are coffee beans?
This system of trade connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
This conflict occurred on a slave voyage when enslaved Africans overtook the ship, leading to them eventually gaining freedom
What is the Amistad Rebellion?