Christopher Columbus
Other Explorers
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Important People
100

The year Columbus sailed and the names of his three ships.

What is 1492 and the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?

100

Realized that South America was a separate continent from Asia.

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

100

Caused Portugal to have to find a new route to China and India.

What is Portugal did not have a port on the Mediterranean Sea?

100
Because the Europeans accidently brought this from their countries, MANY Native Americans died.
What is disease and illnesses?
100

First to sail West to reach Asia.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

200

This is what Columbus named the land he found in the New World in 1492. 

What is San Salvador?

200

This person reached and claimed Brazil before continuing on to India.

Who is Pedro Alvares Cabral?

200

This period of intellectual and artistic creativity set the stage for the age of exploration and discovery.

Who was the Renaissance?

200

Some of the goods the Europeans were interested in buying.

What is silks, sugar, spices, perfumes, and precious stones?

200

This person realized that the Seven Cities of Cibola did not exist. 

Who is Francisco Coronado? 

300

These are the achievements of Columbus's other 3 voyages in 1493, 1498, and 1502.

What is explored Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica; sailed the coasts of Central and South America; mapped the coastline of Central America?

300
This person reached the port of Calicut, India, and found a sea route to Asia for Portugal.

Who is Vasco da Gama?

300

The lowest class in the Spanish colonial society class structure.

Who were the enslaved Africans?

300
This was the most famous ship of the European age of exploration.

What was the caravel?

300
First European to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunuz de Balboa?
400
This European nation sponsered Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.
What is Spain?
400

His crew was the first known people to circumnavigate the world.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

400

European explorer who first sighted California in 1542.

Who was Juan Cabrillo?

400
The 3 G's and Land! God, Glory and Gold.
What were the motivating forces for exploration?
400

Spanish priest who fought for laws to protect Native Americans and convinced leaders to forbid the enslavement of natives.

Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?

500
This group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
500

This person founded the first Spanish settlement in the present day U.S.-in St. Augustine, Florida.

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

500

A conquistador would have to give this up if he failed to find any treasure.

What is his own fortune?

500

This agreement divided the entire unexplored world between the countries of Portugal and Spain.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

500

Searched for gold as well as the fountain of youth.

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

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