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100
The year Columbus discovered the New World.
What is the year 1492?
100
The Catholic monarchs of Castile and Spain who financed Columbus' voyages.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
Columbus' belief that one could reach the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic.
What is the Enterprise of the Indies?
100
Jacques Cartier
Who paved the way for French exploration in North America and sailed the St. Lawerence River?
100
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Who was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean?
200
The year Balboa discovers the Pacific, thus showing that the New World was not the Indies.
What is the year 1513?
200
The Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer who discovered the New World.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
200
The agreement between Spain and Portugual as proposed by Pope Alexander VI to set a demarcation line in the Atlantic.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
Christopher Columbus
Who sailed across the Atlantic looking for a route to India?
200
Amerigo Vespucci
Who was the first person to realize the Americas were separate from the continent of Asia?
300
The year Cortes discovers Mexico.
What is 1519?
300
The Pope who set the demarcation line in the Atlantic.
Who was Pope Alexander VI?
300
Portugual.
Who got everything east of the line of demarcation in the Treaty of Tordesillas?
300
Henry Hudson
Who explored the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America, and has a river named after him?
300
Hernando De Soto
Who was a Spaniard who spent four years searching for gold in the southeast?
400
The year Cortes conquers Mexico.
What is the year 1521?
400
The ninth ruler of Tenochtitlan, killed during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Who was Montezuma II?
400
Spain
Who got everything west of line of demarcation as determined by Pope Alexander VI?
400
John Cabot
Who explored the Canadian coastline looking for the northwest passage?
400
Ferdinand Magellan
Who was the first explorer to sail around the earth and named the Pacific Ocean?
500
The year Juan Elcano discovered how far the supposed Indies are from the real Indies
What is 1522?
500
The Spanish conquerer of the Aztecs.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
500
Tenochtitlan.
What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?
500
Juan Ponce de Leon
Who was the first European to step foot in Florida?
500
Amerigo Vespuci
Who probably lied about being part of the expedition that landed in the New World a year before Columbus?
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