Exploring
Columbian Exchange
Spain Explorers
Age of Contact Vocabulary
France explorers
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What did Christopher Columbus explore?

He explored the new world.

100

What would lead to Europe's wealth increase?

Quicker trade routes

100

Where did Cortes land?

He landed in Mexico.

100

Exploration meaning.

Traveling through an unknown land to learn about it.

100

What were the French trading throughout North America?

They were trading treasure furs.

200

What was Christopher Columbus trying to accomplish?

A quick trade route to Asia.

200

What main thing was taken back to Europe for money?

Crops.

200

Which colony becomes the heart of the viceroyalty of new Spain?

Mexico

200

Conquistadors meaning.

Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered and claimed large amounts of land for Spain in the Americas and gained wealth and glory for themselves.

200

what was the Northwest Passage?

It was a short cut to trade with Asia.

300

What were the people of Spain called that explored Tenochtitlan?

Conquistadors.

300

What was the trade route between Europe, Africa, and America called?

The Triangle Trade.

300

What was one of the main goals of the Conquistadors? 

To convert natives to the Catholic faith, or to gain wealth and glory for themselves in Spain.

300

Occupation meaning.

When another country's army enters and controls another country or land.

300

Where did La Salle's men land and end up building Fort St. Louis?

Matagorda bay.

400

What was the tribe called in the Tenochtitlan?

There were the Aztec tribe.

400

What bad thing from Europe was brought to the new world?

Diseases.

400

Why was Tenochtitlan so appealing to Cortes and the Spanish?

There were great qualities of Gold, Silver, and Jewels.

400

Scouting Party meaning.

A group of people sent out to search for something.

400

What were the three main problems La Salle's expedition faced?

One was his difficult attitude.

Pirates and shipwrecks.

And Spaniards captured on the four ships.

500

Why did Christopher Columbus explore the new world?

God, Gold, Glory.

500

As a result in war what two places traded?

Middle East, and Europe.

500

What happened in Tenochtitlan in 1521?

Cortes' army took Tenochtitlan in a bloody battle.

500

Viceroy meaning.

A Spanish official who rules in the name of the king or queen.

500

Where did La Salle set sail from with his supplies and when?

He set sail from France in 1684 with four ships and 280 people.