True or False
Cortes led an expedition to Spain.
If false, where did he lead an expedition to?
Mexico
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True or False Columbus "discovered" America?
False, The Native Americans or indigenous people were already living in North America when Columbus made it there.
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What were the three reasons that explorers typically went on expeditions?
Gold, God, and Glory
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True or False: When Marco Polo returned to Europe, he wrote about his experiences and encouraged others to travel to Asia to buy silks, spices, and other goods.
What is True
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Name two problems that Magellan and his crew faced on their voyage.
What are running out of food and supplies and meeting greedy natives.
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What was Hernan goal in Mexico?
What is to find wealth
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True or False: Columbus thought he reached India but he really reached America.
False, Columbus thought he reached Asia but he really reached the Bahamas.
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Who was the first European to reach the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
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Marco Polo went to China with which relatives?
What is his father and uncle.
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What country paid for Magellan expedition?
What is Spain?
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True or False: Hernan Cortes is from Mexico.
False, he lead an expedition to Mexico. He is from Spain
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What date did Columbus and his crew set sail on?
August 3, 1492
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Where is Amerigo Vespucci from?
Italy
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What inventions did Marco Polo see in China?
What is paper, printing, and gunpowder.
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What countries was Magellan trying to reach while sailing west?
What is the Indies and China?
400
What does conquistador mean in English?
What is conqueror
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Why did Columbus set out on the third journey to the New World?
He set out to redeem himself.
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Where did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado lead an expedition to?
The American Southwest
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What is the "silk road" ?
What is a series of trade routes connecting China to Europe.
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Why didn't he succeed in circumnavigating the globe?
What is he was killed in Mactan?
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Name the two most important events that happened while he was in Mexico.
He brought disease to many Natives.
He captured the Aztecs.
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What happened on Columbus fourth and final journey to the New World?
He was defeated. No riches or traces of the Indies or China.