When Worlds Collide Flashcards
___________ and ___________ are common sights today in American fields; both came from Europe after 1492.
Dandelions and bluegrass
Colonists brought with them lemons, oranges, bananas, and figs from __________ ; melons, radishes, and onions from __________.
Africa, Europe
What was the name given to deadly regions of the ocean?
Horse latitudes.
__________, a black conquistador who was with Cortés at Tenochtitlán and afterward settled there, became the first “to plant and harvest wheat in this land.”
Juan Garrido
What was it that Spaniards brought home that Indians grew in the highlands of the Andes Mountains?
The white potato
The Indians who first raised the vegetable five thousand years ago called it _________?
Teosinte
Who was Francisco de Eguia?
He was African and came with the conquistadors;
Why were houses pulled down over the perished in Tenochtitlán?
to serve as graves for the dead families.
By 1600, how many epidemics had spread through Central America?
14 epidemics
From the Pacific __________ marched into the southwest, where some of his men became the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
What killed Ponce de León?
A wound inflicted by an Indian’s poison arrow.
The four were part of an expedition to Florida led by ____________, a conquistador of the usual stripe.
Panfilo de Narváez
What happened to Narvaez while he was sleeping on his raft, and what happened to the remaining vessels.
Narváez was blown into the Gulf of Mexico one night while sleeping in his raft; the remaining vessels broke apart soon after, along the coast of present-day Texas.
In the end, only four men survived: a thin fellow named _________, the expedition’s treasurer; two Spaniards named _______and _______; and a friendly African nicknamed ____________ (or “Little Steve”—so named, perhaps, because he was really rather large).
Cabeza de Vaca, Castillo and Dorantes, Estevanico
For three years the four men hiked—across Texas, over the mountains, eventually nearing the _____________.
Pacific Ocean
