This Genoan explorer sailed under the Spanish flag, crossing the Atlantic for the first time in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This Spanish conquistador arrived in the Mexico valley in 1519 and conquered the Aztecs by 1521.
Who is Hernando Cortez (Hernan Cortes)?
100
Columbus was primarily interested in this precious metal.
What is gold?
100
Bartolome de las Casas was a member of this profession/vocation (i.e. what he did for a living).
What is the priesthood (a Catholic/Dominican priest or friar)?
100
Name three of the four (or five) oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic (and Southern) oceans?
200
Though given credit for circumnavigating the globe (1519-1522), this Portuguese explorer did not actually survive the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
This Spanish explorer conquered the Inca empire in present-day Peru in 1533.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
Though far from it, Columbus, to his dying day, believed he had reached this continent.
What is Asia?
200
Name two of several ways in which de las Casas noted the mistreatment and murder of the Taino Indians.
What is mutilation (amputated hands and noses), impalement, fed to the dogs, burned at the stake, hung from gibbets, etc.?
200
Name five of the seven continents.
What are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?
300
This Scandinavian explorer was likely the first European to reach the Americas, circa 1000 AD/CE.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
300
This Spanish explorer searched for gold and the "Fountain of Youth" in present-day Florida (La Florida) in 1513.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
Columbus sailed under the Spanish (Castilian) flag for these
Spanish monarchs.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
300
Originally estimated to be 3,000,000, the estimated Native American population of Hispaniola following Spanish conquest/colonization.
What is 200?
300
The religion (more specific than Christianity) spread by European missionaries in the Americas in the late 1400s and early 1500s.
What is Catholicism?
400
This Florentine (Italian) explorer sailed under the Portuguese flag along the South American Coast (1499-1504); a German mapmaker later named newly discovered lands "America" in his honor.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
This Spanish explorer "toured" much of present-day southeastern United States, making it as far north as North Carolina and as far west as Oklahoma; he died in 1541 somewhere along the Mississippi River in present-day Louisiana.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
400
Columbus referred to this present-day country as Cathay.
What is China?
400
The number of Indians on Lucayos (the Bahamas), originally estimated to be 500,000, was reduced to this number following Spanish colonization/conquest.
What is zero (0)?
400
The name of the financier who helped fund Columbus' expedition and to whom Columbus addressed his letter of 1493.
Who is Luis de Sant Angel?
500
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the African Cape of Good Hope on his way to present-day India in 1498.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
500
This Italian navigator sailed under the English flag, reaching present-day Newfoundland, Canada in 1497.
Who is John Cabot (Giovanni Cabato)?
500
Though some say Columbus was imprisoned for his cruel treatment of Native Americans, it is more likely that he was imprisoned for this.
What is debt?
500
Bartolome de las Casas addressed the court of this Spanish monarch (king) in regard to the cruel treatment of Native Americans.
Who is Don Carlos (King Charles V)?
500
The movement of living things (e.g. tobacco, livestock and disease) between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (i.e. Europe and the Americas) is known as this.