Explorers
Who was the Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and reached the Americas in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Name two European countries that competed for colonies in the Americas.
What are Spain and France or England, and Portugal
What was the name of Spain’s colonies in the Americas called?
What is The Spanish Empire.
What system sent goods and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is The Triangular Trade?
What happened to many Indigenous people after the Europeans arrived?
They died from diseases or were enslaved.
Which explorer first sailed around the world?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Which country built the largest empire in the Americas in the 1500s?
What is Spain.
Which empire did the Spanish defeat in present-day Mexico?
What is The Aztec Empire.
What did Europeans trade to get enslaved Africans?
What are guns, cloth, and manufactured goods?
Why did European diseases harm Indigenous people so badly?
They had no immunity to new diseases
Who conquered the Aztec Empire for Spain?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Which European country started colonies along the east coast of North America?
What empire did Francisco Pizarro conquer in South America?
What is The Inca Empire?
What was brought from the Americas to Europe that made Spain very rich?
What are gold and silver?
What happened to Indigenous lands after conquest?
They were taken by Europeans.
Which Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around Africa to India?
What is Vasco da Gama ?
Why were European countries competing with each other?
Because they wanted wealth, land, and power
Which country took over many Caribbean islands for sugar plantations?
What is England? (or France, or Spain — depending on the island)
What crops became valuable cash crops in the Caribbean?
What is Sugar and tobacco?
What did the Spanish force many Indigenous people to work on?
What is plantations and in mines.
What was the main goal of most European explorers?
What is to find new trade routes and riches.
What is the term for when countries try to control foreign lands?
What is Colonialism or Imperialism.
What was the main reason Europeans wanted colonies?
To get resources like gold, silver, and crops
What was the main goal of the Spanish treasure fleets?
To carry wealth from the colonies back to Spain.
What was one positive and one negative effect of European contact?
Positive: new animals and crops introduced Negative: loss of freedom and land