Please Help! its due monday! 30 points!
11. What were the names of the three ships given to Columbus by the Spanish King and Queen
(Answer A), and on which one did he sail (Answer B)?
a.
b.
12. According to the text, why did Columbus call the people he encounterd on his first voyage
“Indians”?
a.
13. Look at the map on page 40 of you’r textbook. If you were to follow the journeys of Amerigo
Vespucci, what continent do you think he explored the most?
a.
14. Who was the first European to Circumnavigate, or sail around, the world?
a.
15. The Spanish Conquistadors were successful in conquering both the Aztec Empire in Mexico and
the Incan Empire in South America. Please give, and explain, the three reasons they were able
to do this, according to the text.
a.
b.
c.

13. Columbus called all the people he met in the islands 'Indians', because he was sure that he had reached the Indies. This initial encounter opened up the 'New World' to European colonization, which would come to have a devastating impact on indigenous populations.

14. Ferdinand Magellan

15. The Spanish conquered the great Aztec and Inca empires by bringing diseases to kill most of them off quickly, scaring them with the horses, and using their more advanced superior weapons to kill them.