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Who opened up trade with India?

Vasco de Gama

100

Which explorer sailed around the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

100

Who sailed in hopes of finding a route to India?

Christopher Columbus

100

What is a Mestizos?

Child of Spanish and Aztec/Mexican Native Parents

100

Which country created a colony in Florida?

Spain

200

What did John Cabot do?

sailed to Newfoundland

200

Which explorer conquered the Aztecs?

Henan Cortes

200

What did Bartolomeu Dias do?

Used counterclockwise winds to get around South Africa

200

What are people called who have French and Native parents?

Metis

200

Which country had interests in present-day Canada?

France

300

Who sailed along the coast of South America, deeming it a continent?

Americo Vespucci

300

What did Pedro Alvarez Cabral discover?

Coast of Brazil

300

Which explorer made multiple expeditions down the coast of West Africa?

Prince Henry the Navigator

300

What is a Viceroy?

Ruler of a colony/settlement appointed by the King of the mother country

300

Which country gave up on colonizing the North?

What is Spain

400

What country was Quebec's founder, Samuel de Champlain from?

France

400
Who led 600 volunteers from Cuba into Mexico

Cortes

400

Which explorer hoped to spread Christianity?

Prince Henry the Navigator

400

What is the term for the water passage leading to Asia?

Northwest Passage

400
What did France name the territory it claimed after failing to find the Northwest Passage?
Louisana after King Louis XIV
500

Who discovered the coast of Brazil?

Pedro Alvarez Cabral

500

Who took advantage of counterclockwise winds that were discovered by another explorer?

Vasco de Gama

500

Which explorer founded Quebec?

Samuel de Champlain

500

What is trade of animals, people, disease and food called between Africa, North and South America, and Europe?

Columbian Exchange

500

Which country had control of far East South America?

Portugual