A historical period known as a new age of learning, science, and art in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
100
explored for Spain the area that is now Florida while looking f or the Fountain of Youth
Who is Ponce de Leon?
100
Columbus called the people he saw here "Indians" because he thought he was in this country.
What is India?
100
These people were sent out to try and convert Native Americans and others to Christianity.
What are missionaries?
100
the exchange of food, religion, and animals between the New World and Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
The science of planning and following a route.
What is navigation?
200
explored and claimed for Spain the area that is now the southwestern United States
Who is Coronado?
200
Balboa founded that the Pacific Ocean was to the west of the lands Columbus reached, and Vespucci found no wealthy rulers or large cities.
What are two facts that proved Columbus wrong?
200
the Northwest Passage or trade routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the main reason that sponsors sent European explorers to North America in the early years of the Age of Discovery?
200
tomatoes, pumpkins, squash, corn, pineapple
What are some foods from the New World?
300
Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Who was Columbus's sponsor?
300
explored for France the area that is now the Saint Lawrence River
Who is Cartier?
300
to seek more land and wealth
Why did sponsors often pay for long voyages to the New World?
300
cattle, sheep, horses, peaches, sugarcane, rice
What are some items brought to the New World from the Old World?
400
He was looking for a water route to Asia.
What is the main reason for Columbus's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492?
400
explored and claimed for Spain the area that is now the southern United States
Who is De Soto?
400
Christianity
What is the religion that missionaries were sent to convert people to?
500
North America and South America
What is the New World or the "Americas"?
500
explored for Holland the area that is now New York and surrounding areas
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
limited knowledge of geography, money, crew, and mutinies or death.
What were some of the obstacles of exploration for explorers and their sponsors?
500
new diseases like smallpox and measles killed thousands of native peoples who had no immunity to the new diseases brought over from Europe to the Americas.
What is one reason why the Columbian Exchange can be considered one of the worst things about the Age of Discovery?