Chapter 2 Review - Exploring the Americas

I looked for the Northwest Passage

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Vasco de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

I looked for the Northwest Passage

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernan Cortes

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco de Balboa

Choose the European country that did NOT colonize the new world

• England

• France

• Germany

• Portugal

• Spain

What were Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette exploring for?

• The Pacific Ocean

• The Atlantic Ocean

• The 7 Cities of Gold

• The route of the Mississippi and the Northwest Passage

I tried to make lives better for natives, keeping them from being slave labor. However, because of my influence, African slavery began to spread in the new world

• Bartolome de las Casas

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Christopher Colombus

• Vasco de Gama

Which is NOT a reason the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztec and Inca empires?

• Technology - armor and guns

• Disease - especially smallpox

• Native allies - the enemy of my enemy is my friend

• Animals - horses and war dogs

• Mystery - The Aztecs and Incas thought the Spanish were gods

Make sure you look at the chart for the Colombian Exchange, which is in lesson 2.4

• Ok

• If you say so

• You can't make me!

One of the social classes in Spain's new world colonies: I am someone living in the new world, but born in Spain

• Peninsulare

• Mestizo

• Creole

• Natives/Enslaved Africans

One of the social classes in Spain's new world colonies: I am someone born living in the new world, but my family is from Spain

• Creole

• Mestizo

• Peninsulare

• Native/Enslaved African

One of the social classes in Spain's new world colonies: I am someone born in the new world, and my parents are one from Spain, one from the new world

• Mestizo

• Creole

• Peninsulare

• Native/Enslaved African