Explorers 1
Motivation
Miscellaneous
Christopher Columbus
Vocabulary
100

Traveled with Vasco Nunez de Balboa across South America and conquered the Inca tribe

Francisco Pizzaro

100

The rock material that fooled Jacques Cartier’s third trip to the Americas

Fools Gold/Pyrite

100
A crop plant that was imported from America to Europe

Corn

100

The names of the three ships that Christopher Columbus sailed on

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

100

To change from one belief or religion to another.

Convert

200

Explorer looking for the mythical Fountain of Youth and ended up in the land la Florida (land full of flowers)

Ponce de Leon

200

What G of motivation is related to "Spread Christianity"?

God

200

What disease did Europeans get from the Americas?

Yellow Fever

200

The country that sponsored Christopher Columbus

Spain

200

A complete ownership or control of a resource or industry

Monopoly

300

Was one of the first explorers to cross the Isthmus of Panama and see the Pacific Ocean

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

300

What G of motivation relates to "Find wealth and valuable resources"?

Gold

300

An export that Europeans brought to the Americas that the indigenous people used effectively

Horses

300

What was Christopher Columbus trying to find when going west?

A new route to India/Asia
300

A system of trade that uses money to buy goods and services instead of relying on barter

Monetary Exchange

400

Explorer for Dutch East India Company, trying to find a Northwest passage, but ended up with his crew doing a mutiny leading to his death.

Henry Hudson

400

What G of exploration is related to "Increase national power and influence"

Glory

400

An official journey to speak with the government of another country

Diplomatic Mission

400

The year Columbus sailed across the Atlantic

"1492 Columbus sailed the open blue"

400

A society that chiefly relies on agriculture or farming

Agrarian Culture

500

Sailed around the Cape of Hope in South Africa to get to India

Vasco de Gama

500

The 3 motivations of European exploration.

God, gold, and glory

500

The process of establishing settlements and political control over another territory

Colonization

500

What followed once Columbus found the Americas in the west?

European exploration, new land for Europe, new food/crops, and meeting new people.
500

The exchange of plants, animals, people, goods, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Columbus Exchange