SPANISH EXPLORATION LESSON AND ASSIGNMENT

Age of Exploration
Exploring the world during the 1500s looking for new lands

Improved Technology for Travel

Making Maps

• Europeans also learned cartography (the skill of making maps)

• They learned how to make a curved Earth fit on a flat surface

• Maps were used to mark locations of trading posts

• Maps changed as explorers discovered new territories

Compass

A navigational instrument used to help sailors find direction.

Caravel

It is a small sailing ship used in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore.

New World

North and South America

Astrolable

It was an instrument used to measure the positions of the Sun and other objects in the sky. That helped navigators estimate time and their own position on the sea.

Old World

Europe, Asia, and Africa

Multiple Choice

"New World" was a name given to the Americas by

• spice traders

• shipbuilders

• American Indians

• European Explorers

Conquistador

A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

Multiple Choice

Spanish explorers and soldiers who led expeditions became known as ________, which means "conquerors".

• Conquistador

• Veterans

• Sailing Soldiers

• Conquerors

Expedition

A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose.

Colony

A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land.

Northwest Passage

A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Europeans wanted to get silk from China and spices like pepper, from southeast Asia. They wanted cloth from Asia and India.

Interest in Asia

​Marco Polo's writings about his travels in Asia made Europeans interested.

Multiple Choice

Age of Exploration

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose

• A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land

• Exploring the world during the 1500s looking for new lands

• A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

• A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Multiple Select

select ALL of the following items that Europeans wanted from Asia

• Silk

• Spices (pepper)

• Cloth

• Glass

Multiple Choice

Explore

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose

• A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land

• To travel in a region that was previously unknown or little known in order to learn about its natural features and inhabitants

• A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

• A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Multiple Choice

Expedition

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose

• A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land

• Exploring the world during the 1500s looking for new lands

• A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

• A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Multiple Choice

Compass

• A navigational instrument used to help sailors find direction.

• A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land

• Exploring the world during the 1500s looking for new lands

• A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

• A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Multiple Choice

Colony

• A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose

• A group of people settled in a distant land that are ruled by the government of their native land

• Exploring the world during the 1500s looking for new lands

• A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain

• A water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Multiple Choice

From which continent did explorers begin traveling from beginning in the late 1400s?

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• South America

Spanish Exploration

Spain's Reasons to Explore

Gold: The Spanish wanted to find more gold. They wanted to be rich.

God: The Spanish wanted the natives to believe in God and they wanted them to become Christians.

Glory - They wanted to be famous and make Spain famous too.

Multiple Choice

The main reason Europeans wanted to find an all water route to Asia was . . .

• to spread Hellenistic culture

• to find new trade routes to Asia (wanted control of the rare spice trade = $$$)

• to develop new math methods

• to spread their religious beliefs

Multiple Select

What are the 3 G's that help us remember the reasons for Spanish exploration?

• God

• Greed

• Glory

• Gold

Multiple Choice

What areas did the Spain colonize in the 1500s?

• Southern Africa

• Southwestern Europe

• the Midwest

• Mexico, Central America, parts of South America

Multiple Choice

What continent is this ?

• South America

• Asia

• North America

• I don't know!

Exploring
new lands

●Amerigo Vespucci - Arrived in South America.

●Ferdinand Magellan - First European voyage to circumnavigate
the globe.

Multiple Choice

What is the best definition of the word "circumnavigate?"

• Sail in a ship.

• Travel all the way around.

• Travel by airplane.

• Explore a new place.

Multiple Choice

What was brought the most in the Columbian Exchange?

• diseases

• horses

• plants

• spices

Multiple Choice

What was a result of the diseases brought to Europe?

• people died

• people developed medicine

• people planted crops

• people became doctors

Multiple Choice

Spanish explorer who came to the Americas on Columbus's second voyage

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Multiple Choice

Where did Juan Ponce de Leon land?

• Florida

• California

• Cuba

• Mississippit River

Multiple Choice

Spanish explorer that was more successful in his search for riches

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Hernando de Soto

Multiple Choice

Spanish for conqueror

• conquest

• resistance

• settlement

• conquistador

Multiple Choice

Why did Ponce de Leon and Cortes explore?

• both were trying to find riches and looking for gold

• both were making new claims for land

• to defeat the Aztecs

• to take over the empires

Multiple Choice

large area in which different groups are controlled by one ruler

• conquest

• resistance

• empire

• conquistador

Multiple Choice

Who offered Cortes gifts of gold and precious jewels in Tenochtitlan?

• Incas

• Aztecs

• Moctezuma

• Vizcaino

Multiple Choice

What did Cortes do after he met with Moctezuma?

• stole his gold

• took him prisoner

• claimed the land for Spain

• married his daughter

Multiple Choice

Who drove Cortes and his troops from the city?

• Aztecs

• Incas

• Spanish

• none of these

Multiple Choice

What were three reasons the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztecs

• excellent swords

• horses for fighting on horseback

• help from unhappy natives

• all of these

Multiple Choice

Spanish conquistador that sailed to the west coast of South America with a small army

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Hernando de Soto

Multiple Choice

lived in thick stone cities high in the mountains and did not fear Spanish attack

• Aztecs

• Incas

• Spanish

• none of these

Multiple Choice

went hunting for riches but found none and in the process discovered the Mississippi River

• Hernan Cortes

• Hernando de Soto

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Juan Ponce de Leon

Multiple Choice

led the group that was first to the Grand Canyon and claimed large areas of what is now the American Southwest for Spain

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• Francisco Pizzaro

Multiple Choice

Who began Spanish claims on what is now California and explored the coast around San Diego?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• Sebastian Vizcaino

Multiple Choice

Who sailed up the California coast, giving many places the Spanish names we still use today?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• Sebastian Vizcaino

Multiple Choice

victories by invading armies

• conquest

• conquistador

• resistance

• settlement

Multiple Choice

town created by people in an area previously uninhabited by that people

• conquest

• conquistador

• resistance

• settlement

Multiple Choice

defense to diseases developed by the immune system

• conquest

• conquistador

• resistance

• settlement