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The year that Columbus made his first voyage and discovery.
What is 1492?
The three ships that Columbus used for his expedition.
What are the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
He set out to find a new route to the Indies.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
They funded Columbus’s expedition to find a route to the Indies.
Who where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
The largest ship and the one on which Columbus sailed.
What was the Santa Maria?
The month and year Columbus set sail for the Indies.
What is August of 1492?
The two rival countries that had the most powerful fleets and ruled the seas.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
The ship that delayed Columbus trip for 21 days on the Grand Canary Island.
What was the Pinta?
A group of tiny islands located between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
What are the Spice Islands?
His mission was to find a westward sea passage from Spain to the Spice Islands in the Far East.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
Columbus discovered this on October 12, 1492 thinking he had reached the Orient?
What is the New World?
An Italian navigator, became the first Euro-
pean to visit the northeast coast of North America in 1497.
Who Is John Cabot?
The first Englishman to sail around the world, making him a national hero.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
A French explorer, who searched for a northwest passage to the Orient in what is now Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
An English sea captain who smuggled
goods into smaller, less supervised ports and was largely responsible for promoting the slave trade.
Who was John Hawkins?
He led the first voyage to circumnavigate
the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
An Italian seaman, commissioned by the French, he
led the first crew to explore the Hudson River, New York Bay, and Cape Cod in 1525.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazano?
A passage between the southern tip of South America and the coast of Antarctica, connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
His expedition to Florida was undertaken to find a mythical fountain of youth. He also colo?nized what is now Puerto Rico.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
The first person to consider America to be a separate continent.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
First to sail through the Gulf of St. Lawrence and down the St. Lawrence River?
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Seeing the world through the eyes of one’s own culture, and believing that one’s own culture is mor?ally superior.
What is ethnocentrism?
The charts that explorers used (and added to) beofre the use of lines of longitude and longitude.
What are Portolans?
The rebellion of a ship’s crew against its captain.
What is Mutiny?
1495-97: Da Vinci painted this famous picture.
What is the Last Supper?