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This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
100
This device helped tell direction (N, S, E, W)
Compass
100
In ______, Columbus sailed the ocean blue
1492
100
Who is the English version of Christopher Columbus?
John Cabot
100
This group of people landed in Canada around 1000 years ago. Leif Erikson was one of these.
Vikings
200
This man conquered the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
200
This device helped the navigators tell time.
Chronometer
200
What were the names of Christopher Columbus's three ships?
Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria
200
First man to reach the Pacific Ocean from Europe
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
200
Who came first, Da Gama or Dias?
Dias
300
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue.
Christopher Columbus
300
This device helped sailors find their latitude based on the height of the sun or the North Star.
Astrolabe
300
Christopher Columbus thought he landed in _____________ but he actually landed in San _____________________.
Asia (India) Salvador
300
This man looked for the fountain of youth; helped claim Florida for Spain
Juan Ponce De Leon
300
Who is America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
400
This Portuguese explorer became the first person to sail from Europe to Asia.
Vasco Da Gama
400
True or False: Maps in the 1500s were very accurate
False
400
Christopher Columbus met natives when he landed in San Salvador. What did he do with them?
He enslaved them.
400
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
400
This man wrote a book that describe Asia to Europeans, which made a lot of people want to explore Asia and find a water route there.
Marco Polo
500
This explorer sailed around the world (circumnavigated the globe)
Ferdinand Magellan
500
In 1418 this man opened up a school of navigation.
Prince Henry of Portugal (Henry the Navigator)
500
Why did Christopher Columbus want to come to "Asia"? Who sent him?
He was sent from Spain (Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand) to help spread the catholic religion and to bring back riches.
500
These two explorers were looking for the Northwest Passage
Henry Hudson and Jacques Cartier
500
The Plains Indians' number 1 resource was this.
Buffalo
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