Explorers
Vocabulary
Countries
Latitude/Longitude
Miscellaneous
100
Sent to build missions in Florida
Who is Hernando do Soto?
100
Merchants traveled in large groups called
What is a caravan?
100
Hacienda owners from this country relied on American Indians to farm the land
What is Spain?
100
Degrees latitude for Washington D.C
What is 40 degrees north?
100
Spanish for conquerer
What is a conquistador?
200
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world
Who is Magellan?
200
A religious settlement built by Spanish colonists
What is a mission?
200
Found a sea route to Asia that was important to European trade
What is Portugal?
200
Degrees latitude for Mexico City
What is 20 degrees north?
200
A journey to achieve a goal
What is an expedition?
300
His books told about travels to China on the Silk Road
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Used to measure the size of continents by European navigators
What is an astrolabe?
300
Built missions in the Americas
What is Spain?
300
Ecuador is closest to what degrees latitude
What is 0 degrees?
300
Merchants traveled across this desert to trade
What is the Sahara Desert?
400
First landed in San Salvador, not India
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly and affects many people
What is an epidemic?
400
Traded gold for salt
What is Ghana?
400
Degree longitude for Buenos Aires
What is 60 degrees west?
400
Magellan began his voyage around the world in this year
What is 1519?
500
Made an expedition to Mexico to conquer the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
500
To sail completely around something
What is circumnavigate?
500
Aztec Indians were located here
What is Mexico?
500
Degrees longitude for Jamaica
What is 80 degrees west?
500
Spanish tried to convert many Indians to this religion
What is Catholicism?
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