What country is located next to Spain and is its rival in sea explorations?
Portugal
100
What is the key word meaning "the belief that one's own racial group is superior to others"?
Racism
100
What years were the Middle Ages roughly in?
Approx. between the 400s and 1400s
200
What famous explorer has a popular pool game named after him?
Marco Polo
200
What city in Italy was once the greatest city of the Mediterranean world?
Venice
200
What is the key word meaning "someone who can plan and control the course of a ship"?
Navigator
200
What continent is the country Guinea in?
Africa
300
What king and queen of Spain did Columbus go to for a sponsor for his expedition?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
300
Vasco Nunez de Balboa went through an Isthmus in Middle America to find the Pacific Ocean. What was the name of the Isthmus? (Hint: Isthmus of _______)
Isthmus of Panama
300
What is another word for a king or a queen?
Monarch
300
How many trips did Columbus take to explore the Caribbean Sea?
4 Trips
400
What explorer discovered a strait through the tip of Africa that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean? (Hint: It is named the Strait of ________)
Ferdinand Magellan
400
What was the name of the island that Columbus thought was Japan, but was actually in the Caribbean Sea?
Hispaniola
400
What is the imaginary line around the earth that runs north and south called? (Hint: the Pope established it in 1493)
The Line of Demarcation
400
What period in time is known for scientific curiosity, the return to classical learning, and the praise of humanity called?
The Renaissance
500
What prince of Portugal also became known as a navigator? (Hint: his shipbuilders also designed the caravel)
Henry the Navigator
500
Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the tip of Africa to find an all-water route to Asia. What did he name the tip of Africa?
The Cape of Good Hope
500
What was the holy war between Spain and the Muslims known as? (Hint: it's "reconquest" in Spanish)