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100
A change.
What is reform?
100
The leader of the first expedition to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
The explorer sent by the King of England to sail across the Atlantic to Asia; landed on Newfoundland instead.
Who is Giovanni Caboto (a.k.a. John Cabot)
100
The group of Europeans that reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
100
The empire that Hernando Cortes conquered in Mexico.
What is the Aztec empire?
200
The movement to make Spain all Catholic.
What is the Reconquista?
200
The explorer who found and named Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
200
Funded Christopher Columbus' first and second voyage with the purpose of finding riches and spreading Catholicism.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
200
The European nation that sponsored Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
What is Spain?
200
The passage North of North America that was supposed to be a safer and faster route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
The use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something.
What is technology?
300
The spanish conquistador who took control of the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
The explorer who claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas (named a river after himself).
Who is Henry Hudson?
300
The explorer who never left home and opened a school of navigation.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal?
300
A time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways?
What is the Counter-Reformation?
400
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is an expedition?
400
The explorer whose crew mutinied against him, was set adrift on a small boat and never seen again.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
Wrote on of the most popular books during the Renaissance period.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Was the first to realize that Columbus and Cabot had not reached Spain and that the world was much bigger than everyone thought.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
The German priest who began to call openly for change in the Catholic Church in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
An agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters.
What is a treaty?
500
The three men who searched for the Northwest Passage but never found it.
Who is Verrazano, Cartier, Hudson?
500
Explored the land of Panama and became the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
A Spanish priest who took an African slave named Estevancio to search for the 7 cities of Gold.
Who is Marcos de Niza?
500
To find a more direct water route to Asia.
Why did Columbus sail west through the Atlantic?
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