What did they discover?
Christopher Columbus
Caribbean Islands
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
What disease cause the most Native american deaths?
Smallpox
Modern day Quebec(Canada)
What animals/plants came to the new world from Europe?
Tobacco
Tomato
Turkey
Ferdinand Magellan
Philippine Islands
What two countries conquered most of south America?
Spain and Portugal
Why did Native Americans often die from contact with Europeans? sans hostility.
Disease/lack of immunity.
Sieur de la Salle
Louisiana
What plants and animals came from the old world?
Horse
Pig
Rice
Sheep
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Modern Day Brazil
Who was the deafeated leader of the Aztecs?
Montezuma II
What country grew rich from its south American conquests?
Spain
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Harbor of modern day New York City
What social class grew in economic strength with the rise of Cpaitalism?
Merchants
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
The Pacific Ocean
This divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese as Spanish EMpire.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Platform farming relied on what?
Brazil’s enslaved Africans.
Double Points: Willem Janszoon
Austrailia
What was the columbian exchange?
widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas.
Jacques Cartier
Mondern day Montreal(Canada)
What was the long term consequence of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Brazil Became a Portuguese speaking colony,
Name 2 advantages Cortes had over the Aztecs.
Weaponry
Hostile Neighbors
Immunity to disease
Double Points: Captain James Cook
Hawaii
Colonoes were risky and individuals did not want to invest all their money in them, causing the creation of what?
Joint-stock Companies