Social Studies Chapter 2

What did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella want Columbus to trade for in Asia?

• Gold and spices

• lumber and fish

• horse and cattle

• cotton and wood

someone who gives financial support to a person or cause

• colony

• conquistador

• patron

• epidemic

Who did Hernan Cortes take prisoner?

• Moctezuma

• Columbus

• King Ferdinand

• Prince Henry

Buying and selling of humans as property

• slave trade

• epidemic

• colony

• patron

Who started a navigation school?

• Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry

• Leif Ericsson

What was Cortés' goal when traveling to Mexico?

• get gold

• bring new foods back to Europe

• learn from the Natives

• conquer the Aztec empire

What navigation tool helped sailors tell how far north or south of the equator they sailed?

• map

• caravel

• compass

• astrolabe

Why were European diseases so devastating to NativeAmericans?

• The Europeans used the diseases as weapons of war.

• Native Americans had no immunity against the diseases.

• This was the second time Native Americans had caught these diseases.

• They got sick and lost their jobs to enslaved Africans.

Spanish soldier or conqueror

• navigation

• astrolabe

• conquistador

• voyage

What geographic advantage did Portugal have for exploring?

• It was surrounded by land.

• It had vast forests as a source of timber for building ships.

• It was located on the coast of Europe making it easy for ships to come and go.

• It got a lot of rain which helped grow crops.