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.