The year Columbus sailed and the names of his three ships.
What is 1492 and the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Realized that South America was a separate continent from Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
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?
First to sail West to reach Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is what Columbus named the land he found in the New World in 1492.
What is San Salvador?
This person reached and claimed Brazil before continuing on to India.
Who is Pedro Alvares Cabral?
This period of intellectual and artistic creativity set the stage for the age of exploration and discovery.
Who was the Renaissance?
Some of the goods the Europeans were interested in buying.
What is silks, sugar, spices, perfumes, and precious stones?
This person realized that the Seven Cities of Cibola did not exist.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
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?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The lowest class in the Spanish colonial society class structure.
Who were the enslaved Africans?
What was the caravel?
His crew was the first known people to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
European explorer who first sighted California in 1542.
Who was Juan Cabrillo?
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?
This person founded the first Spanish settlement in the present day U.S.-in St. Augustine, Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
A conquistador would have to give this up if he failed to find any treasure.
What is his own fortune?
This agreement divided the entire unexplored world between the countries of Portugal and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Searched for gold as well as the fountain of youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?