Lessons 2-3 Vocabulary Keyterms Quiz

A journey with a special purpose

• colony

• expedition

• empire

A region controlled by a distant country

• colony

• expedition

• empire

The movement of animals, plants, and disease across the Atlantic Ocean after 1492

• Columbian Exchange

• colony

• conquistador

• empire

Several territories and nations ruled by one ruler or government

• empire

• colony

• Columbian Exchange

• expedition

A Spanish soldier who came to America in the late 1500s

• conquistador

• Columbian Exchange

• colony

• expedition

Which European country was the first to establish a colony in the Americas?

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

Which European power colonized the majority of South America?

• France

• Portugal

• Spain

• Netherlands