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Random Age of Exploration Questions
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Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
What is Christopher Columbus
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This event is highlighted with a group of sailors from Spain travelling around the Southern tip of South America and all the way back to Spain. This achievement is known as...

What is Circumnavigation

100
During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
What is flat
100

This explorer is known for travelling along with Cortes and discovering parts of modern Southwest United States

Fransisco de Coronado

100

Lief Erickson and the vikings get credit of having landed on the American continent around 1000 AD, but where did they actually land (correct answer or closest)

Nova Scotia, Newfoundland

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200
was an Italian explorer who first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders
What is Amerigo Vespucci
200

What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"

What is .... God Glory and Gold

200

This Spanish explorer is famous for searching for the Fountain of Youth and exploring parts of modern day Florida

What is Juan Ponce de Leon

200

Who was the King and Queen that funded Christopher Columbus voyages? (200 Points Each)

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

300

A Spanish conqueror, known for arriving in Mexico and conflicting with the Aztecs and Montezuma

Who is Hernando Cortes

300

The is the time period "on land" while the age of Exploration is going on.

What is the Renaissance

300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

This Spanish explorer traveled up the East Coast of the United States, and also discovered the Mississippi River

What is Hernando de Soto

300
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
What is divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400
a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
What is Hernando Cortes
400

Had it not been for this persons stories of riches in Asia, the age of Exploration may have never happened or been seriously delayed in history

What is Marco Polo

400

This was the first permanent settlement by a European in the continental United States

What is St. Augustine

400

Why did the Aztecs allow Cortes to walk into their city walls so easily and hand him gifts and gold

They though he was a prophecy from their religious teachings

500
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
500

Name the two facts Christopher Columbus was wrong about...

What is... 1. The world was bigger than he thought 2. He never made it to the Indies

500

Name the two groups of people who arrived on the American continent before Christopher Columbus?

1. Siberians (Eskimos)
2. The Vikings (Lief Erickson)

500

This is the king that Cortes dealt with in his battle against the Aztecs

What is.....Montezuma

500

The Mississippi River was discovered during this time period. This mighty river starts up north in _______, and exits into the Gulf of Mexico in _________.

Minnesota, Louisiana

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