Explorers
Geography
Explorations
Natives
Treasure
100

Word of this explorer's voyage set in motion many future expeditions.

Columbus 

100

What explorer crossed west over the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Mississippi? 

De Soto

100

Which English explorer was known for raiding Spanish territories in the Caribbean?

Sir Francis Drake

100

Cortez conquered the Mayans, Pizarro conquered who?

Inca

100

What commodity brought explorers to Canada? 

Fishing

200

Who influenced Pizarro to seek an empire of his own in the New World?

Cortez

200

What's the name of the city Cortez built in the place of Tenochtitlan?

Mexico City

200

Only one of Columbus's 3 ships returned to Spain, which was it?

Nina

200

What did Columbus call the native people of the Bahamas? Why?

Indians, he thought he had landed in the East Indies

200

Pizarro captured an Inca trading vessel off the Pacific coast. What was the vessel filled with? 

Gold and Jewels

300

This explorer had relatively peaceful encounters with the Indigenous people. 

Cartier

300

Cartier name a hill Mont Réal, what is that area known as today? 

Montreal

300

This exploration was the first where a huge battle ensued to gain control of the New World. Who led this exploration?

Cortez

300

Emperor Montezuma sends what to the Spaniards in hopes to entice them to stay on the coast and not travel inland? Did it work?

Gold & Jewels, No

300

Many explorers were chasing gold, but gained this instead?

Knowledge

400

This Spanish explorer left a wake of war, murder, and terror in his wake as he crossed paths with the Indigenous people. 

De Soto

400

By the late 1500's a well-traveled ocean "highway" tied together what locations?

Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas

400

When De Soto traveled from Florida to Mississippi, what did he find?

A lot of people, corn, and mound dwellings

400

Who did Columbus expect to find when he landed on the shores of what he thought were the West Indies?

Fierce Female Cannibal Warriors 

400

What emperor was held prisoner and ransomed for gold?

Montezuma

500

What are 3 reasons behind the drive of exploration? 

Fortune, land, and fame

500

What was the name of the first settlement in the New World?

Navidad

500

What caused the Age of Exploration to come to an end? 

Most of the New World had been conquered and claimed. 

500

What group of people did Cartier encounter along the St. Lawrence River?

Iroquois 

500

Although part of Columbus's exploring party sought for gold, what did Columbus seek? 

Knowledge of new routes and new people
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