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100
What did the Silk Road connect Europe to?
What is China.
100
Which invention helped sailors steer without seeing the sun or stars?
What is the compass.
100
What did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella hope to gain from Columbus's voyage to America?
What is to find riches, such as gold.
100
After Cortes, what did Spain send explorers to Central and South America looking for?
What is gold.
100
What did the Spanish build to protect their colonies?
What are presidios.
200
What new inventions did Marco Polo see in China?
What are paper and printing.
200
What did the Portuguese name the tip of Africa?
What is the Cape of Good Hope.
200
Which explorer claimed a large part of South America for Portugal in 1500? Magellan Balboa Cabral Columbus
What is Cabral.
200
Who helped Cortes defeat Moctezuma?
What are other Indian nations.
200
How did the Spanish colonists treat the American Indians?
What is they forced American Indians to work on farms and in mines.
300
What kingdom was Timbuktu a central trading city for?
What is Mali.
300
What did the Chinese invent that was helpful to sailors?
What is gunpowder.
300
Where did Columbus land after he sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Bahamas.
300
When Cortes and the conquistadors arrived in Mexico, the Aztecs.....?
What is controlled a huge empire and lived in a city bigger than any in Europe.
300
Why did Spain's rulers send priests with explorers?
What is start missions or spread Christianity.
400
What is a group of people and animals who travel together?
What is a caravan.
400
What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?
What is the printing press.
400
Name Columbus' ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
400
Where was the Aztec empire located? Name the present day country.
What is Mexico.
400
What direction did Columbus want to sail to reach Asia?
What is west.
500
What is the first European country to find a sea route to Asia?
What is Portugal.
500
What ocean did Magellan name?
What is the Pacific.
500
Who America was named after or explorer who made several trips to South America.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
500
What is a fountain that could make old people young again?
What is the "fountain of youth".
500
What important contribution did Portuguese explorers make to European trade?
What is they found a sea route to Asia.
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