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Spanish & Portuguese Exploration
Spanish Empire
Columbus & the Tainos
Cortes & the Aztecs
Columbian Exchange / Wild Card!
100
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
100
Catholicism
What was the official religion of the Spanish Empire?
100
Columbus landed on these two islands first.
What are the Bahamas and Haiti/the Dominican Republic?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! 1) Moctezuma 2) Cortes
1) Who was the ruler of the Aztec Empire when Cortes invaded? 2) Who was a Spanish conquistador who led the invasion of the Aztec Empire?
100
The year 1500 is in this century.
What is the 16th century?
200
Portugal and Spain wanted to trade with these two areas of the world.
What is Asia and Africa?
200
Between 700 and 1100, Spain was home to the largest ____________ population in Europe.
What is Jewish?
200
The word "Taino" means this.
What is "men of the good?"
200
Largest city in the Americas and one of the largest cities in the world in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
Columbian Exchange
What is the exchange of crops, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Europe, and Asia)?
300
This happened when Portugal colonized islands in the Atlantic off the western coast of Africa.
Portugal established sugar plantations on these islands and shipped in slaves from Africa to work on them.
300
The name of the campaign in medieval Spain to find Muslims and Jews who had converted to Christianity but whose conversions were “insincere.”? The Spanish either exiled (forced them to leave their homes) or killed these people.
What is the Inquisition?
300
Columbus thought he had landed in India when he actually landed in the Caribbean because_______.
Columbus vastly underestimated the earth's size. He (and other Europeans) also did not know the continents of North and South America existed.
300
Characteristics of the Aztec Empire (4 possible answers - you must provide at least 2)
-Military empire: conquered people throughout Mexico and forced them to work as slaves.? -Organized society around religion. Believed human sacrifices were necessary to keep sun gods pleased and to ensure abundant harvests.? -One ruler, the emperor, ruled over the entire empire. -Actually an alliance of 3 empires.
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! 1) Aztec translator for Cortes. 2) Modern day country the Aztec Empire was located in.
1) What is Dona Marina? 2) What is Mexico?
400
Spain and Portugal fought these people during the Crusades. They controlled the land route to Asia, inspiring Spain and Portugal to search for a sea route.
Who are Muslims (or Muslim traders)?
400
Spanish justifications for conquering other parts of the Americas.
What were 1) believed they were superior to Native Americans 2) believed Native Americans needed to be converted to Catholicism and 3) believed they were a source of free labor to extract gold & silver.
400
This event happened at the same time as Columbus departed for his trip.
Ships took some 8,000 Jewish people from Spain into exile.
400
Many people in the Aztec Empire resented the rulers for these two reasons.
What is: 1) States throughout the empire were forced to pay taxes and tribute. 2) The Aztec Empire forced people into slavery to construct most of the wonders of Tenochtitlan that awed the Spaniards.
400
Pope Alexander VI (head of Catholic Church) drew an imaginary line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.? Spain was to control all lands to the west of the line; Portugal all lands to the east.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
Europe was searching for a sea route to Asia and Africa in the 1400's for these reasons.
What are luxury goods: silk, tea, spices, and gold?
500
Spanish explorers began to explore other parts of the Americas for this reason.
What is they hoped to find gold?
500
Tribute system
What is the system in which every Taino (14 or older) was forced to provide a certain amount of gold every month. Those who didn't comply faced injury or death.
500
Three main reasons why Cortes was able to conquer the Aztecs.
What are: 1) Huge army of native allies: Native Mexican leaders wanted to use the Spanish to help them destroy the Aztecs.? 2) Smallpox: Native Mexicans had no immunity or defense against this European disease. Killed a third of Tenochtitlan, including many military leaders. ?3) Resources / technology: Horses, guns, and steel.
500
3 historical impacts of the Columbian Exchange.
1) 78-90% of Native American population dies within 100 years of Columbus’ arrival due to European disease.? 2)Introduced new calorie-rich staple crops to Afro-Eurasia: potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, and cassava. More food led to increased population.? 3)Plantation economy and slavery: sugar provided model for plantations in the Americas. Europeans imported African slaves to work on these plantations.