NAME _______________
Study Guide
Chapter 6
New Learning
Vasco da Gama’s
Henry Hudson
Sir Francis Drake
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Ferdinand Magellan
List of social classes from colonial Latin America
Coast of West Africa became known as
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Middle Passage
Catholic missionaries
King Philip II’s reign: At the end of his reign, Spain was _______. What was Phillip known as
_______?
James I of England
Elizabethan Literature (Famous writer)
Huguenots
John Calvin
New world land claimed by Spain in 1600
New world land claimed by England in 1600
ESSAY POSSIBILITIES
1. Describe the impact of the Spanish settlers on the native population of the Americas.
2. Explain how the Columbian Exchange significantly affected world cultures.
3. If you do this one you have potential for 3 extra credit points:
The Age of Exploration is considered one of the 62 Turning Points in History. A turning point is a
point in which decisive change takes place. With the idea that Hindsight is always 20/20, write a
five-paragraph essay with you as the King of Spain. You have directed that all land claims and settlement would be done with negotiation. That war would be used as a last resort. A soldier could
only fight back if they were threatened. This one policy would change history, because the Aztecs
and Incas were never conquered by Spain. Describe the new world and Spain’s place in the world. If
these two things never happened, how would history have been different?