THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

  1.  Which European nation began exploring the Atlantic in the 15th century?
  2.  What were they searching for?
  3.  What forced them to do this?
  4.  Who was Bartolomé Diaz?
  5. What was Vasco Da Gama the first to do and when? Why was this relevant?
  6.  Where are the Spice Islands and what are they called?
  7.  Why was spice so important?
  8.  Where was Christopher Columbus from?
  9.  Where did he wish to sail to?
  10.  Who financed his expedition?
  11.  Did he think the Earth was flat?
  12.  What Rodrigo de Triana famously say when he sighted land?
  13.  Where did he think he had landed?
  14.  What did he call the island where he landed?
  15.  How many expeditions did Columbus make to the New World?
  16.  When did he discover the New World?
  17.  Why was the new continent named after Vespuccio and not Columbus?
  18.  What was the Columbian Exchange?
  19.  What products did Europe bring back from the New World?
  20.  What products did Europe take to the New World?
  21.  Was the discovery of the New World positive or negative?
  22.  Why do the indigenous Indians not refer to the arrival of Columbus as a ‘Discovery’?
  23.  What was La Leyenda Negra ?
  24.  What was the treaty drawn up between Portugal and Spain so that each nation could protect their new possessions?
  25.  When was this treaty signed?
  26.  If the treaty was supposed to give all new territories in the New World to Spain, how was it that Portugal ended up with Brazil?

The Conquistadors

27.  Where in Spain was Hernán Cortés from?

28.  What had he studied?

29.  Why did he travel to the New World?

30.  Which civilisation did he conquer?

31.  Why was this civilisation expecting Cortés?

32.  What was the name of their capital city?

33.  Where was the capital built?

34.  What is a causeway?

35.  What was the name of their king?

36.  Who did they think Cortés was?

37.  What was the name of the year in which Cortés arrived?

38.  What was the name of the Indian tribe that helped Cortés?

39.  What happened during la Noche Triste (the Night of Tears)?

40.  Why did Hernán Cortés ask after Martín López as they escaped the city?

41.  What illness had greatly affected and weakened the Aztecs?

42.  What is the name of city where Tenochtitlan used to stand?

43.  Who conquered the Incas?

44.  Which part of Spain was this conquistador from?

45.  What was the name of the Incan king?

46.  What is the name of the famous hidden 15th century Incan city that was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham?

47.  What were the three ‘G’s’ of Spain’s conquest of the New World?