Explorers
This famous explorer is well known for his many travels and book which encouraged others to start exploring.
Hint: There is a game often played in a pool named after him.
Who is Marco Polo?
When Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage he was looking to find this country.
What is India?
This is the land Christopher Columbus thought he would find when heading west from Europe.
What is the Indies or Asia
This tool used the position of the stars to find a ship's latitude.
Astrolabe, Compass, or Sextant
What is the Astrolabe
What does the word indigenous mean?
The first to live or be from a certain place
This famous explorer was credited for discovering North American. He was an Italian man hired by the King and Queen of Spain to find a route to the Indies.
How does the pool game Marco Polo relate to the real Marco Polo?
Marco Polo was known for his constant traveling and was hard to find, much like the pool game that is played by blindly wandering to find the "Marco Polo".
The 1st person to ATTEMPT to sail around the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
This tool has a magnetic arrow that points north to show direction you are going.
This group of people felt safe and protected behind their walls around their community. However, they were easily conquered by Francisco Pizarro who had guns.
Who are the Inca
This explorer was the first to complete a voyage around the entire world.
Christopher Columbus, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, or Juan Sebastian Elcano
Who is Juan Sebastian Elcano?
This area of land was the middle ground or passage way from Europe to Asia and banned travel causing the need for an alternate route to Asia.
What is the Middle East
The first person to ACTUALLY sail around the world and took 3 years.
Juan Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, Juan Sebastian Elcano
Who is Juan Sebastian Elcano
This tool made steering a ship easier.
Chronometer, Stern Rudder, or Carrack
What is a Stern Rudder
This group are indigenous to the land we now call the Bahamas and were nicknamed "Indians" upon meeting Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Taino
The explorer who founded what is now the state of Florida and named the land "La Florida".
Hernan Cortes, Juan Ponce de Leon, Francisco Pizarro
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
Christopher Columbus landed in what is now {THIS COUNTRY}, thinking he had made it to India. He called the Natives here "Indians" when they were really the Taino tribe.
What is the Bahamas or what Christopher Columbus called San Salvador.
Hernan Cortes traveled to what is now this country and conquered the Aztecs, taking the land for Spain.
El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba
What is Mexico
This tool was invented by John Bird and used to measure the stars in the sky. It worked together with the chronometer in order to determine longitude or how far east or west a ship was.
What is the Sextant
While this group fought back, they were conquered by Hernan Cortes and his army.
Who are the Aztecs
This explorer led an army to conquer the Inca and emperor Atahualpa.
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
After Cortes conquered the Aztecs he created this Nueva Espana which means ___.
What is New Spain?
True or False
Spain claimed land in what is now the United States.
True, parts of California and Florida used to belong to Spain
This was created to withstand long voyages and updated to hold 3-4 masts with sails.
What is the Carrack or Caravel
True or False
Spain took natives from the New World as slaves in Europe.
True. Christopher Columbus was the first to take people from another country to force into slavery in another country.