Explorer vocabulary
A Spanish fort usually near a Spanish mission.
What is a presidio?
In 1498, he became the first European to reach India by sea.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
He thought he had sailed to India.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The ocean that the Portuguese and Spanish explorers had to cross to get to the new world.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
When two or more groups or objects come together.
What is contact?
To start or establish something.
Found of founded.
He stressed the importance of his Portuguese explorers finding a sea route around Africa?
Who was King John II of Portugal?
The three main goals of all European Explorers. (hint, the three G's.)
What was God, Gold, and Glory?
A piece of land that extends into the ocean.
What is a cape?
People born in America to Spanish parents.
Who were Creoles?
A town in Spanish-ruled lands.
What was a Pueblo?
In 1488, he was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa, paving the way for future exploration and trade routes to India.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
He was a Spanish priest who convinced the Spanish government to pass laws protecting the natives.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
This place was also known as the "Cape of Storms".
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
The Spanish discovered this in northern Mexico and forced Native Americans to dig for it.
What was silver?
To travel completely around the world usually by water.
What is circumnavigate?
He claimed Brazil for his Portuguese king.
Who was Pedro Cabral?
He was believed to be searching Florida for the "Fountain of Youth".
Who was Ponce de Leon?
The home of Emperor Cusco or as he called it Cuscotopia!
What is the country of Peru?
People with one Spanish parent and one Native-American parent.
Who were mestizos?
It was believed that if you dipped yourself in these waters, you would retain your young self.
What was the "Fountain of Youth"?
I'm called the teacher of Navigation but I did not once sail on the high seas.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
He was on his way to circumnavigating his way around the world when he was killed in battle in the Philippines.
Who was Magellan?
Christopher Columbus named the land he found this.
What is San Salvador?
Highest level of Spanish colonial society.
Who were the peninsulares?