First Peoples
This is the leading theory explaining how the American continents was populated.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Christopher Columbus was born in this Italian city.
What is Genoa?
Hernan Cortez was a Spanish soldier known by this name. Hint: it means conqueror.
What is a Conquistador?
Our Lady appeared before this man.
Who was Juan Diego?
This explorer and conquistador arrived in Florida in 1513.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
This migration of the first peoples is estimated to have taken place over _________ of years.
What are thousands?
Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World took place in this year.
What is 1492?
Cortes arrived in what is now Mexico in this year.
What is 1519?
The apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe occurred in this year.
What is 1531?
This explorer and conquistador discovered the Grand Canyon.
The first people migrated by moving in this direction through the American continents.
What is southern?
Columbus sailed these three ships to the New World.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Cortes hoped to find this in the New World.
What is gold?
Our Lady requested that a church be built in honor of her Son on this hill in Mexico.
What is Teypeyac Hill?
This Spanish explorer was shipwrecked off the coast of Texas.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
The first people migrated into what is now this state in the United States of America.
What is Alaska?
Columbus first landed in what is now Haiti which is an Island in the ___________.
What are the Bahamas? (Also will accept: What is the Caribbean? or What are the Greater Antillies?)
Cortes conquered both these Mesoamerican empires.
What are the Maya and the Aztec empires?
Her appearance led to the conversion of this many Aztecs in just a few years.
What are 8 to 9 million Aztecs?
In this year Conquistador, Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi River.
What is 1541?
The first people migrated from this region in Russia.
What is Siberia?
This is the name of the indigenous people that Columbus first encountered in the New World.
Who are the Taino?
Montezuma II, the emperor of the Aztec empire, people was killed in what year?
What is 1521?
Our Lady of Guadalupe was named _____of the Americas by Pope John Paul II in1999.
What is the Patron (or Patroness) of the Americas?
This Spanish explorer and conquistador was a part of Francisco Pizzaro's conquest of Peru and the Inca Empire.
Who is Hernando DeSoto?