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Age of Discoveries
Portuguese and Spanish discoveries and colonizations
Question | Answer |
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The Mayas lived in? | Yucatán Peninsula |
The Inca empire was located in? | On the Western shore of South America, the Andes. |
The Aztecs were...? | A warrior empire located in nowadays Mexico |
Who was Christopher Columbus? | An explorer who had the idea of sailing West in order to reach India |
First navigator to sail around the world | Juan Sebastián Elcano |
First navigator to reach to round Africa | Bartolomew Dias |
What was the name of the explorer who discovered Florida? | Juan Ponce de León |
What is the Columbian Exchange? | The ideas, products, traditions and people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean from America to Europoe and vice versa |
The Treaty of Tordesillas | In 1494 the Pope divided all newly discovered (and all not discovered yet) lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain |
The Aztecs had... | created a big empire by conquering nerby kingdoms, making them to pay tributes. |
The Mayas are famous for ... | their stepped pyramids, made out of stone. |
In 1532... | Francisco de Pizarro invaded the Inca Empire (ruled by Atahualpa) |
Hernán Cortés was... | A nobleman that conquered the Aztec empire in 1519 |
Why could the viceroys make decisions without asking the king? | Because it took too long time to travel between Europe and America. |
What was one of the most important reasons for the death of thousands of indigenous people? | Europeans brought diseases like smallpox and influenza |
What was the main purpose for priests to go to America? | To convert natives to Catholicism. |
What were the most important products to export from the colonies to Europe? | Silver and gold |
Overseas empires | Set of foreign territories ruled by a European kingdom (Portugal and Spain) |
Who was the first explorer realizing about the discovered lands as a new continent? | Amerigo Vespucci |
How many expeditions made Columbus to the West? | Four, being the first one where he landed in Guanahaní |
Who were the "Mestizos"? | Those born of Spanish father and indigenous mother, located in the intermediate social class step. |
Council of Indies | Institution with the purpose of making laws in the Spanish colonies in America. |