Conquistadors & Columbian Exchange

Which of the following allowed the Conquistadors to defeat the Indigenous peoples of the Americas? (click all that apply)

• Superior Technology

• Superb physical strength

• Disease

• Native allies

What was Juan Ponce De Leon really searching for in Florida? (click all that apply)

• Native Americans to enslave

• Gold

• Fountain of Youth.

• The Northwest Passage

What Florida city established by Spain in 1565 is the oldest European city in the U.S?

• Cape Canaveral

• St. Augustine

• Jamestown

• Miami

What was Fransisco Coronado searching for in the American southwest?

• 7 Cities of Gold

• The Northwest Passage

• The Lost Tribe of Israel

• The Holy Grail

Who conquered the Aztecs in 1521?

• Fransisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortez

• Vasco Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

The _ Exchange was exchange of people, crops, animals, and disease between the Old and New Worlds.

3/5ths of all the food the world consumes today originated in the Americas including corn and potatoes.

• True

• False