The Great Convergence

An explorer who claims land for Spain is known as a...

• Missionary
• fur trapper
• Conquistador

What is a colony?

• A group of people from one area, who create a settlement in another area far away.

• A group of people that live in teepees
• An area that controls itself

Why were countries motivated to colonize the New World?

• It was an easy place to move to
• For gold, god and glory
• They wanted to learn the Indians culture

This animal was introduced to the New World by Columbus. 

• Llama
• Turkey
• Horse
• Raccoon 

Conquistador means _______________ in Spanish.

• ruler
• king
• hero
• conqueror

Christopher Columbus was trying to get to the Asia by sailing ___________.

• North
• South
• East
• West

Many Native Americans died because of ____________ brought by the Europeans.  

• food
• goods
• horses
• diseases

TRUE OR FALSE: Europeans who explored the New World found plants and animals they had never seen before. 

• TRUE
• FALSE

The Columbian Exchange. was a movement of _______, between the Old World and the New World. 

• people/cultures 
• disease
• animals/plants
• all of the above

Missionaries persuaded many Native Americans to give up their old beliefs and become _________. 

• Muslims
• Christians