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Explorer names
Expedition years
Motive/Effects
Vocab
100
What tool uses magnets to show what direction you are facing?
A Compass
100
Who is the first explorer to come to the new world and has his own american holiday?
Christopher Columbus
100
When was Columbus's first expedition?
1492
100
What did Christopher Columbus try and do?
Find Asia
100
Who is a scientist that studies artifacts to learn about past cultures?
An archaeologist
200
Which thing explorers brought to help spread Christianity?
A bible
200
Who sailed around the coast of Florida? P.S. he was looking for the fountain of youth.
Juan Ponce de Leon
200
When was John Cabot's expedition?
1497
200
Why did Hernan Cortes go on an expedition?
To defeat the Aztecs.
200
Who is a person that searches new places?
An explorer
300
What tool is a picture that shows how the world or a part of the world is shaped?
A map
300
Which explorer has a bay and a river named after him?
Henry Hudson
300
When was Juan Ponce de Leon's first expedition? (not counting the one with Columbus or the one to Puerto Rico)
1513
300
Why did Henry Hudson explore?
To find the Northwest Passage.
300
What is a sickness that can travel from person to person?
A contagious disease
400
What tool can tell time and direction(like a compass) by using the position of the stars?
An astrolabe
400
Who defeated the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
400
When was Henry Hudson's first expedition?
1609
400
What did John Cabot look for?
A route to Asia
400
What is a Spanish conqueror/explorer called?
A conquistador
500
What is the name of the things that explorers brought back to Europe because they were in high demand and worth lots of money?
Cash crops
500
Which explorer thought that Columbus was right and tried to sail west to get to Asia? p.s. his name is not what the book calls his section.
John Cabot
500
When was Hernan Cortes's first expedition?
1519
500
Why did Robert de La Salle sail the Mississippi?
To get money and help expand the French empire.
500
What is a settlement ruled by another country not its own people?
A colony