Dates
This was the year when Spain simultaneously discovered the New World and expelled the Muslims and Jews.
When is 1492?
This explorer discovered India.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
Columbus made this many voyages in total.
What is 4?
This is the name of a Spanish island in the Caribbean.
What is Cuba?
This is the name of the country Columbus sailed for.
What is Spain?
John Cabot explored North America for England in this year.
When is 1497?
This Spanish queen commissioned Christopher Columbus to go on three more voyages to the New World after he returned.
Who was Queen Isabella?
Columbus's journey across the Atlantic ocean was how many days? (within 3)
What is 61 days?
This is the name for an explorer who sailed for England and claimed the North American mainland.
Who was John Cabot?
This was the first place Columbus landed on in the New World, today an island in the Bahamas.
What is San Salvador?
The first permanent Spanish colony in the New World was set up in this year.
When is 1493?
This was the man who discovered the Pacific Ocean
Who was Balboa?
This is the number of countries located on the island of Hispaniola today
What is 2?
What is China?
This was an archipelago (group of islands) owned by Portugal.
What is the Azores?
Vasco de Gama reached India this year.
What is 1498?
This is the man who America was named after who found out Columbus discovered "a new world."
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
There was about this many years between the beginning of the Crusades and the discovery of America.
What was about 400 years?
This is the word for a settlement in a new region set up by people who remain citizens of their former country.
What is a colony?
This was an island in the Caribbean which means, "little Spain."
What was Hispaniola?
Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean in this year.
What is 1513?
This explorer, who was a lot cooler than Justin Bieber, kicked off an expedition to circumnavigate the globe
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
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What is 3?
What is Columbia?
This is the country where Ferdinand Magellan was killed.
What was the Philippines?