Exploration
People and Roles
The Voyage
Encounters
100

Navigation using the stars and sun

What is Celestial navigation

100

The explorer who led the voyage

Who is Christopher Columbus

100

The ocean Columbus crossed

What is the Atlantic Ocean

100

Why Columbus thought they were easy to control

What is they were unarmed/trusting
200

The direction Columbus sailed

What is West

200

The country Columbus sailed for

What is Spain

200

The year of Columbus's first voyage

What is 1492

200

One of the ways Columbus described the natives

What is Young, Naked, Coarse Hair, Bodies painted black, or Poor

300

The distance of one league

What is 3 Nautical Miles (5.56km)

300

The King and Queen who funded the voyage

Who are Ferdinand and Isabella

300

Name of the religious hymn sailors sang

What is the Salve

300

What Columbus noticed they lacked

What is iron/weapons
400

A small, fast sailing ship used by Spain and Portugal

What is a Caravel

400

Columbus's title on the voyage (General, Private, etc.)

What is Admiral

400

The amount of Maravedis to the first man who saw land

What is 10,000

400

What Columbus believed the natives should become

What are Christians

500

Columbus's Name for Japan

What is Cipango

500

Who the Natives thought Columbus was

What is God

500

Name of the first land Columbus reached

What is Guanahani / San Salvador

500

The people Columbus met in the Caribbean

Who are the TaĆ­no

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