Exploration
What about the Caravel Ship gave it the ability to sail into the wind and also sail in shallow water?
Triangular Sails and a Flat Bottom
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
Conquistadors
" Motivations for Exploration" of the Europeans
To find sea routes to develop trade with Asia
To spread Christianity and convert people
To learn more about Asia and its culture
What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?
Most Native Americans died from European Diseases
What explorer's expedition is given credit for circumnavigating the world?
Ferninand Magellan
Who were the first Europeans to establish colonies in the Americas?
Spanish
A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location
by charting the position of the stars
Astrolabe
What were the main reasons the Spanish were able to overthrow the Aztec Empire?
The Spanish had Horses and Guns
The Aztecs were weakend by smallpox and other diseases
The Spanish were aided by Aztec enemies
This line through the Atlantic Ocean allowed Spain to claim all lands to the west of this line.
Line of Demarcation
America was named for this explorer, who sailed to South America in 1501.
Amerigo Vespucci
Who were the first Europeans to sail to North america?
Vikings
Reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic
Church
Protestants
Which of the following were types of settlements built by the Spanish in the Americas?
Pueblos
Presidios
Missions
What did the Spanish call their vast empire in the Americas?
New Spain
Who was the ruler of the Aztec Empire in the early 1500's?
Montezuma II
Who discovered a "New World" in the Bahamas, on an island that they named San Salvador?
Christopher Colombus
A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of
crop for profit
Plantation
Which of the following describe the French explorers?
Fur Traders
Missionaries
Explorers
Treated Native Americans Decent
This was a religious reform movement started by Martin Luther protesting practices of the Catholic Church in 1517.
Protestant Reformation
Who was the first Spanish military leader that led the Conquistadors expedition to the Americas and conquered the Aztecs?
Hernán Cortés
The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and
1500s is called the
Columbian Exchange
The boundry between Spanish and Portuguese territories in
the New World
Line of Demarcation
What people groups did we talk about that game over? (give at least three)
Vikings
Spanish
Portuguese
Europeans
French
What colony was established by John White in present-day Virginia and mysteriously disappeared? (Lost Colony)
Roanoke
What Spanish military leader conquered the Inca civilization?
Francisco Pizzaro