LSA WH Age of Exploration

In 1492 Christopher Columbus & his three Spanish ships made landfall in the New World here.

In your opinion, is Christopher Columbus a villain for his treatment of Native Americans or a hero for his discoveries?

More slaves--more than 4 million--were sent here than to any other nation in the new world.

The Columbus Day holiday in America is celebrated on what date?

After Cortes' destruction of the Aztecs, Francisco Pizarro invaded the ________ empire in 1532.

This fellow Italian said Columbus had not found India, but a whole new world. 

An earlier colony, called ____________, had failed after its inhabitants mysteriously vanished.

Approximately _____ of slaves who began the trip didn't survive to finish the Middle Passage.

On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus also made stops on these two Caribbean islands.

This was Columbus' favorite ship and likely sailed on three of his four voyages to America.

John Rolfe not only married Pocahontas, but also assured the future of Jamestown by planting:

Between 1519-22, Ferdinand Magellan's expedition accomplished or discovered all EXCEPT.

This improved device was the successor to the astrolabe, adopted by Europeans from the Arabs.

He followed the Mississippi River to its mouth and claimed its valley for France in 1682.

BONUS ROUND: Which one of Columbus' ships was wrecked on his first voyage to the New World?

The bridge over the entrance to New York harbor is named for this 16th century explorer.

Columbus eventually made ____ voyages to the New World, but never found the wealth he sought.

All of the following agricultural products were introduced to Europe from the Americas EXCEPT:

The first French colony in the New World, founded in Canada in 1608, was __________.

This explorer claimed Florida for Spain in 1513 and supposedly found the fountain of youth.

The viking _____ is thought to have actually been the first European to land in the Americas.

The Jamestown colony almost failed during a period of intense hardship that became known as?

The first permanent English colony in the New World was established here in 1607.

This Spanish explorer crisscrossed the American South before dying near the Mississippi River.

In 1608, he established the first French colony in the New World in Canada.

Colonists of this faith founded a second English colony in 1620 at Plymouth in Massachusetts.

All of the following were Columbus' ships on his first voyage to the New World EXCEPT.

The Dutch also founded the Cape Colony here.

The expansion of European agriculture in the New World soon led to a demand for more ________.

Christopher Columbus and his men first landed in the New World on this tiny Bahamas island.

Introduced in Jamestown in 1618, it promised 50 acres of land for each person who paid a passage to New World.

In 1494, these two nations divided the new world between them in the Treaty of Tordesillas.

The viking Leif Ericson was actually the first European to discover the New World in _________.

This refugee from the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded Rhode Island on the basis of freedom of religion.

By 1700, this European nation controlled more of North America than any of its rivals.

Slaves were packed in ships for the brutal voyage from Africa to America called the _________.

The search for a sea route for this trade sparked European exploration in the late 1400s.

This was the first French settlement in North America.

All the following colonies were founded by refugees from Puritan Massachusetts EXCEPT:

This 1610 Shakespeare play was based on the shipwreck of the Jamestown relief expedition.

This Portuguese prince & explorer provided key funding for several early European expeditions.

A complex trade arrangement between the New World and Old soon developed called the __________.

Only 18 of Magellan's men completed the circumnavigation; Magellan was killed by natives here.

A relief expedition intended for Jamestown was first shipwrecked on the island of ___________.

All of the following spices were among those sought from Asia by European traders EXCEPT:

More than any other nations, sailors of these two nationalities dominated the slave trade. 

The Commercial Revolution saw all of the following developments EXCEPT.

Sailing for the Dutch, Englishman Henry Hudson launched this North American colony in 1625.

Based on the economic principle of mercantilism, a nation's power was measured by its _______.

All the following were long-term results of the Age of Exploration EXCEPT:

This capital city of the Aztecs was built on an island and featured aqueducts and canals.

The French hired this Italian captain in 1524 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America.

Cortes and his men were greeted as gods by the Aztecs and their leader _____________.

Which European colonists had the best relationships with the Native Americans?

This English king wrote a pamphlet on the evils of tobacco in 1604--one of the first ever anti-smoking appeals.

Both the first large shipment of women and the first slaves arrived in Jamestown in ______.

He claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500 while leading an expedition of 13 ships to India.

In 1497 his Portuguese fleet sailed around Africa to open a sea route to India.

All of these technologies made it possible for Europeans to make long ocean voyages EXCEPT.

The introduction of animals, plants and diseases between the New World and the Old is called:

Bartholomeu Dias' discovery of this proved there was a water route around Africa.

All of the following agricultural products were introduced from Europe to the Americas EXCEPT:

All of the following were 17th century European joint-stock companies EXCEPT:

Europeans brought all of the following diseases to the new world EXCEPT:

Toussaint Louverture led the largest successful slave revolt in the French colony of ________.

Beginning around 1400, these improved vessels made Europeans capable of long ocean voyages.

In 1519, Spaniard Hernan Cortes landed in Aztec Mexico with all of the following EXCEPT.

He provided critical leadership for the Jamestown colony, but never married Pocahontas.