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The Age of Exploration

Teacher: Katie
Horizontales
A person of mixed European and Native American descent.
Who probably should have received the reward for being the first to spot land in the new world? (Zinn)
"To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their *******, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice." (Zinn)
A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct governmental control.
He said, "we consider (our gods) to be very good, for they give us health and rains and good seed times..."
European nations sought to increase their wealth by ******* sources of precious metals and raw materials in their colonies.
He said, "I will procure (the rulers of Spain) as much gold as they need..."
"The Aztec civilization of Mexico came out of the heritage of the Mayan, Zapotec, and ******* cultures." (Zinn)
Educated Europeans knew the world was round but had no idea of its *******.
Many Aztec died from this European disease.
A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
A person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political or economic gain and then returned to Europe.
In 1518 a Spanish ship carried the first ******* Africans directly from Africa to the Americas.
The Africans' journey from Africa to the Americas became known as the Middle *******.
After 1660, the ******* commercial empire in the Americas fell to its rivals, the English and the French.
It has been said that "Gold, glory, and God" were the key motives for European *********.
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"Women were important and respected in ******* society." (Zinn)
The southern coast of West Africa became known to Europeans as the **** Coast.
A government in power.
The Portuguese invented this: a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails.
A labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work in the silver mines.
When writing about how the Spaniards treated the Arawaks, Zinn writes, "Total control led to total *******."
The holders of an ******* were supposed to protect the Native Americans, but they often abused them.
The Spanish conquerors of the Americas.
Columbus reached the Americas in October 1492, where he explored the coastline of Cuba and the island of ******* in the Caribbean.
A person of mixed African and European descent.
According to Zinn, Cortes had "one ******* goal: to find gold."
A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
As the population declined and warfare increased, the people of ******* lost faith in their gods, their art deteriorated, and human sacrifice became more common.
Columbus thought that the ******* Indians would make fine servants. (Zinn)
Another important explorer funded by Spain was Ferdinand *******.
Columbus persuaded Queen ******* of Spain to finance an exploratory expedition to Asia.
In 1519, a Spanish force under the command of ******* landed at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico.
The conquistador of the Inca.
To send a product or service for sale to another country.