Cool Columbus
On his first voyage, Columbus believed that he had reached the ___________ ____________, but never found the “____________ of the _______________”.
East Indies
Riches of the Indies
During the ______________ _________, the period between ancient and modern times, most ____________________ rarely traveled.
Middle Ages
Europeans
__________ _________ ____ ________ became the first Spanish explorer to land in what is now the United States.
Juan Ponce De Leon
Cortes took Moctezuma ________________, the ruler of the __________ Empire, causing a riot in which the emperor was ___________.
Prisoner
Aztec
Killed
The Columbian Exchange did not involve just Europe and the Americas, but transformed the _____________ _______________
Whole World
The name _______________ began to be used for these lands in honor of _____________ ______________, who sailed one of Columbus’s routes in _________.
Americas
Amerigo Vespucci
1499
Members of one Venetian Family, the __________, actually travelled to China themselves and met the great ruler __________________ ____________.
Polos
Kublai Khan
Cabot reached the __________ ________________ coast somewhere in the region of what is now ____________________________, and area in ________________.
Newfoundland
Canada
New Netherlands was the first colony to bring ____________ ____________ to ____________ ____________________.
African Slaves
North America
Many of the new foods contained ______________, which helped the European population _________.
Vitamins
Grow
When Columbus made contact with the ____________ people in _________, he began what is now called the _____________________ _____________________.
Taino
1492
Columbian Exchange
Whether entirely or only partly over land, the trade from Asia had to pass through the _____________ _________ to reach the _________________________ ________ and _____________.
Middle East
Mediterranean Sea
Italy
Henry ____________ was hired by the ________ __________ ________________ to try and find a shorter route to Asia.
Hudson
East India Company
After the _______ day battle, Cortes destroyed the Aztec empire and built _____________ _________. It would be the capital of a colony that the Spanish called Nuevo Espana, or _______ ________.
75
Mexico City
New Spain
Hernan ___________, another Spanish explorer, decided there must be a great empire rich in gold to the west of the __________________ ____________. He was right!
Cortes
Caribbean Islands
Explorers called the mass of lands between Europe and Asia a _________ World.
New World
The Europeans also brought diseases, such as _______________ and _____________ to the Americas.
Measles and Small Pox
___________, _________________, _______________, the __________________________, __________________, and ___________________ also sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean.
Spain, England, France, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden
In 1587, _________ ___________ returned to Roanoke in North America. He needed to return to England for supplies, but while there a war broke out with England and ___________.
John White
Spain
Spain focused on Exploring where?
South America and the Southern Part of North America
Columbian Exchange refers to the trading of what? Between who?
Items, Animals, Culture, Ideas, and more between the Europeans and Native Peoples of Americas
In 1497, just five years after Columbus’s first voyage, __________ _____________ set sail on a voyage across the Atlantic.
John Cabot
What was the Northwest Passage?
Route to Asia through North America by waterways
In 1647, _____________ _________________ lead conflict with a ________________ colony along the __________________ _______________. This lasted for 17 years but he eventually surrendered.
Peter Stuyvesant
Swedish
Delaware River
In 1615, Etienne Brule discovered what is now Lake _________________, Lake ________, and Lake ____________________. In 1634, French Explorer Jean Nicolett found Lake ________________.
Ontario
Erie
Superior
Michigan