Vocabulary
A government in power.
What is a regime?
The first group of people to visit the Americas.
Who were the Vikings?
An explorer from Venice, Italy who explored Asia whose books about Asia encouraged many others to explore Asia.
Who was Marco Polo?
In order to claim discovered land for the King and Queen.
Why did Columbus bring banners to plant on new land?
The person our country is named for.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
What is culture?
The leader of the first Europeans to visit the Americas.
Who was Leif Eriksson?
Because Contantinople was overtaken and captured.
Why was trade abrupted between Asia and Europe?
The 3 ships Columbus used to sail across the Atlantic.
What were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Explorer who sailed around the world.
Who was Magellan?
A person of mixed African and European descent.
What is a mulatto?
The first European settlement in the Americas.
What was Vinland?
In order to tell what direction explorers were going.
What was the purpose of a compass?
Tired crew and the inability to find land.
What were problems Columbus faced?
The idea that one could sail aound the opposite end of the world to reach Asia.
What was the Europeans believe?
A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
What is a Creole?
First European to create a globe.
Who was Martin Behaim?
In order to quickly acquire many riches.
Why did nations race to new lands?
An alternate route to trade with Asia.
What was Columbus trying to find?
Controlling the course of a ship to reach a destination.
What is navigation?
A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
What is merchantilism?
A way for the Europeans to gain wealth through the exchanging of plants and animals through a large trade network.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The place that Columbus landed in the first time.
What are the Bahamas?
The meridian marked 0 degrees that was crossed repeatedly.
What is the Prime Meridian?