Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
Who gets ‘credit’ for discovering the Americas from Europe, and has a holiday named after them?
Christopher Columbus
What three things were European/Spanish explorers looking for when they set sail in search of new lands?
To spread Christianity, resources, claim territory
GOLD, SILK, JEWELS
What was the Colombian Exchange?
Widespread trade of ideas, culture, and items such as animals, and plants
Where did Columbus land first when he began exploring/what area of the Americas?
The Bahamas
Who paid for Columbus’s voyages?
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Cortes and Pizarro explored which part of the Americas?
Cortes explored middle America in Mexico. Pizarro explored South America
What happened to the natives Cortes and Pizarro encountered
Cortes encountered the Aztec. He took advantage of the leaders hospitality and captured the leader and took over the empire.
Pizarro encountered the Inca and captured the leader and took over the empire.
There was war with both
The crew of what explorer led group was first to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
What is circumnavigate
To go all the way around the world.
Who were conquistadors?
Spanish explorers in the Americas in the 1500s
How did the “Americas” get their name?
Amerigo Vespucci concluded that the Americas where their own continents and peoples started calling both continents America
List some early explorers and where they are from.
Christopher Columbus: born in Italy funded by Spain.
Barthomeu Dias: Spain
Vasco de Gama: Portugal
Vikings: Newfoundland
Ferdinand Magellan: Portugal funded by Spain
Who was the first to ‘discover’ the Americas from Europe?
Leif Eriksson and the Vikings
