What were the results of Spanish and Portuguese conquests in America?

What were the motivations behind European exploration of distant lands?

Write a paragraph explaining why the caravel was an important development for European explorers.

Which other European countries explored and settled in the Americas?

Write a paragraph explaining the function of colonies in increasing the wealth of European nations.

Use your graphic organizer on European exploration to write a paragraph summarizing the major explorers and the regions each nation explored.

Write a paragraph explaining why the caravel was an important development for European explorers.

Describe Portuguese vegetable soups.

What motivated Portuguese and Spanish expansion into the Atlantic, and what were its unintended consequences?

What were women's roles in Spanish America?

What was the one major advantage that allowed the small Portuguese fleet to dominate the Indian Ocean militarily?

How did the social structure contribute to discontent in Latin America?

How did Muslims living in India learn Portuguese?

Who controlled politics in Latin America?