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Sailor from Italy, convinced he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Died not realizing he had made four journeys to America.
Christopher Columbus
Protestants were able to spread their message during the reformation with this invention...
printing press
A priest who said it was wrong to force Native Americans to convert to Christianity...
Bartolome de las Casas
Which was NOT a reason the Spanish were able to end the Aztec and Inca empires?
a. More money
b. had horses
c. spread disease
a. more money
Who issued the Line of Demarcation?
Pope Alexander VI
A conquistador who left the island of Cuba to sail to present-day Mexico in 1519 and helped to conquer the Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortes
Disagreements over this threw Europe into turmoil...
religion
The transfer that included European explorers and settlers taking plants and animals with them to the Americas...
Columbian Exchange
Responsible for advances in exploration in Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
What were conquistadors?
Soldiers from Spain who led military expeditions in the Americas
A huge fleet sent against English but lost and then caused negative effects on the economy ...
Spanish Armada
This gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or make them work.
encomienda system
The Spanish operated these large farms that produced just one kind of crop...
plantations
18 members of this guy's crew became the first to circumnavigate the world...
Ferdinand Magellan
Son of the viking, Erik the Red, landed in present-day Canada in 1000
Leif Erikson
A decree made by Pope Alexander VI that divided the Atlantic Ocean
Line of Demarcation
Who publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church in 1517, starting the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
First Europeans to make contact with North America
vikings
In 1501, he led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present-day South America and later had America named after him...
Amerigo Vespucci
Settlers who came from Spain and usually held the highest government positions
From where did Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean in 1513?
top of a mountain
A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars.
astrolabe
Which of the following was NOT a Spanish victory over empires effect...
a. Reduced Native American population
b. Spanish rule of Americas
c. Better spread of wealth to rest of the world
c.
Francisco Pizarro
What did Vasco Nunez de Balboa discover?
Pacific Ocean