Columbus
This is the year Columbus set sail to find the East Indies.
What is 1492?
This is the nation Magellan sailed for on his famous expedition.
What is Spain?
This is the destination that most European explorers were trying to reach in order to trade.
What are the Spice Islands/East Indies/India?
This Venetian explorer's accounts of his journeys encouraged many Europeans to explore for themselves.
Who is Marco Polo?
This is the name of the island that Columbus actually landed on when he first arrived in the Americas.
What are the Bahamas?
This is the amount of ships that Magellan left on his voyage with.
What is five?
This is the place that Bartolomeu Dias rounded before any other European.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
This English explorer was originally a pirate, and was known for looting Spanish ships
Who was Francis Drake?
What is Spain?
This is the vocabulary term for completely travelling around something, such as earth, especially by water.
What is circumnavigate?
This is the country that Vasco da Gama reached, where he traded for many spices before returning home.
What is India?
This treaty split the new world into two parts between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
These are the names of the three ships Columbus set sail with.
What are the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
These are the islands that Magellan died in after getting in a conflict with the local native peoples.
What are the Philippines?
This is the name of the prince that sponsored da Gama, Dias and many other Portuguese explorers to go on their expeditions.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to discover Brazil, and did so by accident.
Who was Pedro Alvares Cabral?
This is the name of the native peoples Columbus met in the Bahamas.
Who are the Taino peoples?
This is the total amount of men left on the voyage when they arrived back in Europe.
This is the year da Gama took his expedition (Hint: I will accept three answers for this.)
What are 1497, 1498 and/or 1499?
This Spanish missionary was known for arguing against the system of encomienda, which enslaved native Americans against their will.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?