2-2: Europeans Reach the Americas

Columbus’s travels to the Americas created conflict between

• France and Portugal.

• Spain and Portugal.

• France and Spain.

• Africa and Spain.

The Columbian Exchange had deadly effects, such as

• infecting Native Americans with new and deadly diseases.

• robbing Native Americans of corn, tomatoes, tobacco, and cocoa.

• bringing the bubonic plague and the Black Death to Florence.

• spreading measles, smallpox, and typhus throughout Europe.

Who was the Spanish monarch who paid for an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to find a new sea route to Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Taino

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Isabella I

Italian explorer who thought he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean, who instead reached islands off the North American Coast.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Isabella I

• Taino

Native American people Columbus incorrectly named “indians” thinking he landed in the East Indies off the coast of Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Isabella I

• Taino

A boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World established in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI.

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Line of Demarcation

• Columbian Exchange

• circumnavigate

The transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia and Africa.

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Line of Demarcation

• Columbian Exchange

• circumnavigate

Agreement between Spain and Portugal that moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles further west.

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• circumnavigate

• Columbian Exchange

to go all the way around the globe.

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Columbian Exchange

• circumnavigate

Portuguese navigator who commanded a Spanish fleet who were the first people to circumnavigate the globe.

• Taino

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Queen Isabella I