Europe Explores the Americas

Capital City of the Aztec empire.

• Ducth East India Company 
• Tenochtitlan
• Moctezuma
• Mexico-City

What had the most destructive effect on the Native people of the Americas 

• War
• Disease
• Slavery
• Trade

Factor in the ability of the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs

• War tactics
• Superior Weapons
• Compromise
• Magna Carta 

The place French claims in Canada. Grew while French rulers were distracted by wars at home in Europe.

• New France
• New Britain 
• New Spain 
• New Mexico 

Conquerors, Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain

• Pirates 
• Conquistadors
• Moctezuma
• Spaniards 

A landowner in Cuba. Early Conquistador. Spanish Conquistadors conquered Aztec.

• Tenochtitlan
• Hernan Cortes 
• Christopher Columbus
• Montezuma

A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to the homeland?

• Colony 
• Homeland
• Country 
• Settlement

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe? 

• Drake
• Columbus
• Magellan
• da Gama

What did Europeans rely upon to maintain agriculture production in North America? 

• Irrigation
• Horses
• Terracing
• Slave labor

Why did the population of Quebec’s farming settlement grow slowly?

• France was busy settling religious arguments
• The climate was too hot and it limited working hours
• It was more profitable to hunt and trade furs
• The monarch did not want settlers living close to the English.