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He invented a new way to print books

Who is Johannes Gutenberg

100
The explorer who disagreed with Columbus about his find of islands off India.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
100
Machu Picchu
What is an Incan city
100
The wide mouth of a river where ocean tides flow in
What is an estuary
100
The Dutch East India Company
Who is the company that sponsored Henry Hudson's third voyage to America, on which he found the Hudson River valley
200
Why Northern European explorers searched for a Northwest Passage
What is to find a route to Asia
200
How Hernando Cortes kept his men from turning back during their invasion of the Aztec Empire
What is he burned most of his ships so they couldn't go back
200
Why Indians helped Hernando Cortes fight the Aztecs
What is because they were unhappy with Aztec rule
200
A person who makes map
What is a cartographer
200
The person who traveled with his father and uncle into China and the Indies
Who is Marco Polo
300
The person who asked his people to stop fighting Cortes's forces
Who is Motecuhzoma
300
The person who claimed Florida for Spain while he was looking for the Fountain of Youth
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon
300
The person who claimed the Hudson River valley for the Dutch
Who is Henry Hudson
300
The navigator who helped Vasco de Gama sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India
Who is Ahmad Ibn Majid
300
Group of people who ruled an empire in South America
Who is the Incas
400
What the Turks did that affected trade between Europe and Asia
What is they closed trade routes to Asia
400
Why Prince Henry of Portugal was known as the Navigator
What is he set up a school to train sailors in navigation
400
Why Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain
What is to find a new route to Asia
400
The leader of the first expedition to sail around the world
Who is Ferdinand Megellan
400
Which voyage happened first: Columbus sailed to San Salvador in the West Indies or Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the world
What is Columbus sailed to San Salvador
500
Why Spain gained great wealth in the New World.
What is because Columbus's voyage to what thought was Asia
500
Name two of the three inventions that impressed Marco Polo on his trip to China
What is gunpowder, paper money, compass
500
The place sighted on Dias's journey back around the southern tip of Africa
What is The Cape of Good Hope
500
He led the expedition of the first Europeans to see the Mississippi River
Who is Hernando de Soto?
500
What King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle did during the Reconquista to all Muslims who would not become Catholic
What is forced them out of Spain
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