Explorers & technology
Explorers 2
Explorers 3
Famous People
Columbus
100
Scientific knowledge and tools such as the astrolabe and the compass that improved navigation in the late 1400s.
What is technology?
100
He explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
100
A German mapmaker named a continent after me.
Who is Amergio Vespucci?
100
The king and queen that fought a war to push all Muslim people out of Spain.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
100
Columbus' three ships.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
200
The reason Columbus sailed west from Europe.
What is to find a more direct water route to Asia?
200
This fellow was in trouble when his crew mutinied and set him adrift at sea during his last voyage.
Who is Hudson?
200
Bad maps and old technology, lack of money, and dangers in exploring unknown seas and lands.
What are the problems that early European explorers faced?
200
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is expedition?
200
The year Columbus set sail from Spain to find India.
What is 1492?
300
The European nation that sponsored Columbus's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
What is Spain?
300
Verrazano, Cartier, and Hudson were searching for this in North America?
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
He explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of what is now the United States.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
300
A period of intensive exploration that began in the fifteenth century.
What is the Age of Exploration?
300
A movement to make all Spain Catholic.
What is the Reconquista?
400
The empire that the army of Hernando Cortes conquered in Mexico.
What is the Aztec?
400
The Spanish conquistador who took control of the Inca Empire in Peru?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
He explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
The first European who led a group known as the Vikings from what is today the country of Norway to North America in about A.D. 1000.
Who is Leif Erickson?
400
Scientific knowledge and tools.
What is technology?
500
A group of Europeans that reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
What are the Vikings?
500
The leader of the first expedition to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magelian?
500
He explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunex de Balboa?
500
He and his sailors were the first Europeans to travel around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
In 1492 I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered San Salvador.
Who is Columbus?
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