20 The Atlantic World, 1492-1800

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

• Hernando Cortés
• Francisco Pizarro
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

global transfer of food, plants, animals is known as the

• Capitalism

• Capitalism

• Colombian Exchange

• Colony

a land controlled by a distant nation land controlled by a distant nation

• Capitalism

• Capitalism

• Colombian Exchange

• Colony

One way for nation to increase wealth was to gather

• Copper & Lead

• Nickel & Gold

• Gold & Steel

• Slaves & Guns

• Silver & Gold

Columbus claims many islands for

• Italy

• Spain

• England

• Africa

• China

Claimed new land was not Asia but a “new world”, American Continents named for him

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Vespucci

• Cortés

First persons to circumnavigate the world

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Vespucci

• Cortés

Spanish conqueror who kills Atahualpa and conquers the Inca

• Ponce de Leon

• Magellan

• Vespucci

• Pizarro

claims Florida for Spain

• Ponce de Leon

• Magellan

• Vespucci

• Pizarro

Manufactured goods move from Europe to Africa; people move from Africa to America; sugar, coffee, tobacco move from Americas to Europe describes the

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Commercial Revolution

• Mercantilism