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Around the world
Vasco & Mel
More Spanish Explorers
100
I was the first European to pass Cape Bojador, Africa.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator
100
How did early native people in the Americas come here from north Asia?
What is a land bridge over the Bering Strait?
100
Who is considered the first explorer to technically sail all the way around the earth?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
Who spent a lot of time in the Florida Keys searching for treasure?
Who is Mel Fisher?
100
What body of water did Hernando de Soto discover?
What is the Mississippi River?
200
What type of ship that was faster than the older styles did Prince Henry promote?
What was the caravel?
200
What did divers find in a cave in the Caribbean?
What is a 10,000 year old human skeleton?
200
Why was Magellan killed in the Philippines?
What is because he tried to convert the native people to Christianity?
200
What Portuguese explorer will always be remembered for finding a direct route to India and opening an important spice trade to Europe?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
What rich Indian empire in Peru, South America was conquered by the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro?
What is the Inca?
300
Whom did Prince Henry ask to help him chart the coast of Africa?
Who are navigators and cartographers or mapmakers?
300
In what country were scientists at the National Institute of Anthropology & History studying this skeleton?
What is Mexico?
300
Why are historians grateful to Antonio Pigafetta?
What is because he kept a journal as he travelled around the world?
300
How much treasure was found on the wrecked ship Nuestra Senora de la Atocha (Our Lady of Atocha)?
What is $450 million?
300
While Francisco Coronado was searching for a legendary Seven Golden Cities of Cibola, what natural creation did he find?
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
What three continents were the center of trade in the 1400s?
What is Europe, Asia & Africa?
400
Near what country do scientists believe this woman came from?
What is Indonesia?
400
What is a document, photo, artifact, artwork or piece of literature that was created during an historic event?
What is a primary source?
400
What is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C?
What is scurvy?
400
What body of water caused Balboa on his arrival to claim all the land that touched it for Spain?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
What was the small European country very close to Africa that Prince Henry wanted to have a share of Asia's wealth?
What is Portugal?
500
Besides the land bridge, what other way could early humans have arrived on the American continents?
What is a boat?
500
How big a fleet and how many sailors began the journey with Magellan?
What is five ships and 237 men?
500
Vasco da Gama's knowledge of what subject kept him and his sailors from getting lost in their voyage of more than 6,000 miles?
What is astronomy?
500
Why were the Aztecs of Mexico afraid of Hernado Cortes?
What is he arrived on horseback and they thought he was one of their gods?
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