Chapter 2 Age of Exploration

What is happening in this picture?

• Vasco da Gamma is fighting with Indians in India

• Spanish Conquistadors are conquering the Aztecs

• Native American tribes are fighting

• Christopher Columbus is trading with the Native Americans

What vocabulary words describes the route in red?

• Circumnavigate

• Technology

• Christopher Columbus

• Navigation

Whose voyage is this?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

What relation does this graph have to the Age of Exploration?

• It has none.

• Native Americans left Mexico to go to Europe; therefore their population decreased

• The Spanish started to move into Mexico

• Smallpox was brought to the Americas by European explorers

What country is this?

• Spain

• England

• Italy

• Portugal

Who voyage is this?

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Leif Erikson

Which of these events happened first?

• Columbus discovers the Americas

• The Aztecs build a great civilization

• Leif Erikson lands in Canada/North America

• The Spanish Conquistadors conquer and destroy the Aztec Empire

The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was destroyed, rebuilt and renamed by the Spanish after their conquest. It remains the capital of Mexico today. What is the name of this city?

• New Spain

• Mexico Town

• Mexico City

• Madrid

This image shows the exchange of things from the Old world (Europe, Asia, Africa) to the New World (Americas). what was this exchange called.

• The Columbus Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• The Exchange of Goods

This was a Italian born sailor who was hired by Spain to find a new trade route to Asia. He never found a route to Asia but landed in North America. He had an enormous impact on the world. Who is his explorer?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

• Leif Erikson