Question | Answer |
vikings | seagoing people who originally lived in part of Norther Europe called Scandanavia |
country that funded Christopher Columbus' voyages | Spain |
3 ships that Columbus took in 1492 | Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria |
What did Columbus call the people that he first saw? | Indians |
Where did Columbus think that he landed? | Indies/India |
What present-day country did Columbus discover on his first voyage? | Cuba |
King and Queen who funded Columbus' voyages to the New World | King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
Country that Christopher Columbus was from | Portugal |
What present-day country did Columbus discover on his second voyage? | Puerto Rico |
What present-day area did Columbus discover on his third voyage? | Northern coast of South America |
America takes it's name from this Italian explorer | Amerigo Vespucci |
Spanish colonist and explorer who explored the Caribbean coast of present-day Panama | Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
Portuguese explorer who set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific coast; first European to cross the Pacific Ocean | Ferdinand Magellan |
strait | narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water |
circumnavigate | travel around |
Colombian Exchange | a transfer of people, products, and ideas between the hemispheres |
conquistadors | Spanish solider adventurers |
Spanish conquistador who sailed from Cuba to Mexico and conquered the Aztecs | Hernando Cortes |
Aztec leader | Moctezuma |
What did Moctezuma give Cortes in hopes that he would leave, but it had the opposite effect? | gold |
Spanish explorer who was the Spaniard to set foot in what is now the United States and named Florida | Juan Ponce de Leon |
Spanish explorer who explored much of what is now New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Kansas | Francisco Coronado |
plantations | large farms worked by laborers who live on the property |
encomiendas | these were land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans |
missions | religious settlements |
peninsulares | Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain |
Creoles | people born in America of two Spanish parents |
Mestizos | people of Spanish and Indian blood |
Mulattos | people of Spanish and African heritage |
King who wanted to divorce his wife because she was not bearing him a son and ultimately started his own church in England | King Henry VIII (8th) |
name of the church that King Henry VIII (8th) started | Church of England/Anglican Church |
merchantilism | held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful |
northwest passage | a sea route from the Atlantic to Pacific that passed through or around North America |
Italian explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River | Giovanni de Verrazano |
English explorer who made 4 voyages and who Hudson Bay is named after | Henry Hudson |