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Ch 6 East Meets West
This stack will help you prepare for the up coming quiz on Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Viking who landed at Vinland in North America aorund 1000 AD | Leif Ericson |
| These people lived on the islands where Columbus first landed | Taino |
| Is a journey made for a special purpose | expedition |
| An Italian who led an expedition to the New World in 1492 and claimed this land for Spain | Christopher Columbus |
| This royal couple from Spain funded or payed for Columbus' expedition to the New World | Ferdinand and Isabella |
| These were the islands where Columbus and his crew first landed | Bahama Islands |
| The first island Columbus named was called ______ _______ which means Holy Savior in English | San Salvador |
| Columbus was searching for this | Sea route to the Indies |
| The Native Americans sent this to Europe as part of the Columbian Exchange | Potatoes Corn |
| The Europeans brought this to the New World as part of the Columbian Exchange | Sugar Horses Diseases |
| These were the soldiers from Spain who conquered lands | conquistadors |
| The capital city of the Aztecs that Cortes conquered | Tenochtitlan |
| He was the leader of the Aztecs at the time of Cortes' first contact with the Aztecs | Moctezuma II |
| He was the leader of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs | Hernado Cortes |
| An Indian woman who knew several languages and helped Cortes unite the enemies of the Aztecs | Dona Marina |
| He was the ruler of the Aztecs at the time of Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs | Cauhtemoc |
| The vast empire of the Spanish in the new world was called | New Spain |
| With a small group, he began to explore the American Southwest in search of the 7 ciities of gold | Francisco Cornado |
| His forces conquered the Inca empire ruled by Atahualpa | Francisco Pizzaro |
| Stories of the fountain of youth led him to sail north from Puerto Rico. He reached a land he called Florida | Juan Ponce De Leon |
| He and his crew were searching for a route around South America to the Indies. He was killed but his crew completed the first voyage around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| A large area of land granted by Spain that included Indian villages | encomiendas |
| An African scout and a Spanish priest who went searching for the seven cities of gold | Estevaico and Fray Marcos de Niza |
| A person who who teaches his religion to others | missionary |
| A Spanish priest who treated the Indians well and tried to end all encomiendas | Bartolome de Las Casa |
| African slave who led 80 other slaves to freedom in the mountains and established a town called San Lorenzo de los Negros | Yanga |