A Changing World
Early Exploration
Vocabulary
Spain in America
Competing for Colonies
100

One of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East

What is the Crusades

100

In 1492, this explorer led 90 sailors and 3 ships on a voyage into the unknown

Who was Christopher Columbus

100

The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes

What is technology

100

A Spanish explorer

Who is a conquistador

100

The Europeans who explored & settled in North America in the 1500s sought this and wanted to spread this

What are wealth & Christian faith

200

Period of intellectual & artistic creativity

What is the Renaissance

200

A Portuguese nobleman who discovered the country of Brazil

Who was Pedro Cabral

200

A point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula

What is a cape

200

Without this, the Aztec & Inca empires suffered terrible epidemics

What is immunity

200

Explorers hoped to discover a direct water route through the Americas to Asia

What is a Northwest Passage

300

This instrument for navigating the seas helped sailors measure their latitude & measured the position of the stars

What is an astrolabe

300

The Queen of Spain

Who was Queen Isabella

300

To sail around the world

What is circumnavigate

300

Spanish explorer who was buried in the waters of the Mississippi River

Who was Hernando de Soto

300

The transfer of goods, ideas and diseases by Europe, Asia & Africa with the Americas

What is The Columbian Exchange

400

This ship could sail faster and carry more cargo and supplies 

What is a caravel

400

Explorer who realized that South America was a separate continent and not part of Asia

Who was Amerigo Vespucci

400

A religious community where farming was carried and Native Americans were converted to Christianity

What is a mission

400

The Spanish developed a "system" to raise tobacco and sugarcane

What is a plantation

400

In 1718, the French founded this city in Louisiana

What is New Orleans

500

The three (3) most powerful kingdoms & empires in Africa between A.D. 400 and 1600

What are Ghana, Mali & Songhai 

500

Portuguese explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean

Who was Ferdinand Magellan

500

Settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land

What is a tenant farmer

500

The Spanish forced these people to convert to Christianity and live & work at the missions

Who were the Native Americans

500

A large fleet of trading ships that sailed all over the world and ran its trade between the Americas & Africa

What is The Dutch West India Company