European Explorers

Which country sent Columbus on his voyage to discover new lands?

• Italy

• Spain

• Portugal

• Cuba

Columbus traded food, goods, and ideas with the natives of the Caribbean, and this became known as the ___

• Silk Road

• Slave triangle

• West Indies

• Columbian Exchange

What is the name of the ocean between Spain and the Americas?

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

What did Spain call their land in the New World?

• New Spain

• Mexico

• Great Spain

• Corte'sville

The Spanish wanted to convert Native Americans. What does that mean?

• Spain wanted to disarm Native Americans

• Spain wanted the Native Americans to plant tobacco

• Spain wanted the Native Americans to adopt a new religion

• Spain wanted Native Americans to trade only with Spain

What important aspects of Spanish culture are still present in the area once known as New Spain?

• religion

• language

• music and art

• all of the above

A movement to make an area, such as Spain, follow the Catholic faith

• Lutheran faith

• Reconsideraton

• Renaissance

• Reconquista

What are lands ruled by the nation that won control of them

• Empire

• Territory

• State

• Village

The Americas are named after this Italian explorer

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

Which was the main reason Christopher Columbus sailed west from Europe?

• To set up colonies

• Spread the Jewish faith

• Find a direct water route to Asia

• Escape from King Ferdinand