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The month and year Columbus' ships left for the New World.
What is August, 1492?
100
"The first European foothold in the Americas."
What is Hispaniola?
100
Prince Henry's nickname.
What is The Navigator?
100
__________ __ ___ ______ was a Spanish Catholic priest who protested the conquests.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
100
What Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's men called buffalos when exploring in North America.
What is shaggy cows?
200
The year the Church of England was established.
What is 1534?
200
The port that Columbus' ships left when he left for the New World for the first time.
What is Palos, Spain?
200
The monarchs who backed Columbus' expedition.
Who are Isabel and Ferdinand?
200
The system in which Indians were forced to labor for Spanish lords, which basically amounted to slavery.
What is encomienda?
200
The name of the famous book written by a Spanish Catholic priest which blamed the Spanish for genocide of the American people.
What is The Destruction of the Indies?
300
The year German priest Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation.
What is 1517?
300
Where Prince Henry's naval academy was created on the southern tip of Portugal.
What is Sagres Point?
300
_____ ______ was responsible for overthrowing the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
300
The disease that greatly weakened the Aztecs before they were defeated.
What is smallpox?
300
A castaway (from the conquest of Pánfilo de Narvaéz) in the Americas wrote of this empire of large gold cities.
What is Cíbola?
400
The year "The Destruction of the Indies" came out.
What is 1552?
400
Mexico City was built on this Aztec city.
What is Tenochtitlán?
400
Some of the _____ Indians were brought back to Spain by Columbus.
What is Taino?
400
The year Hernán Cortés landed on the Mexican coast before destroying the Aztecs.
What is 1519?
400
Mixed ancestry groups of colonists and Indians and Africans.
What is mestizos and mulattoes?
500
The year Thomas Harriot wrote "A Briefe and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia."
What is 1558?
500
Jean Ribault and 150 other protestants from Normandy began building crude settlements on ____ _____ near South Carolina in 1562.
What is Parris Island?
500
________ ________ of Florence was the first to dub the Americas "Mundus Novus" or "New World."
Who is Amergo Vespucci?
500
The one disease sent back to the Old World from the New World.
What is venereal syphilis?
500
The names of the two people sent by Elizabeth I to take over Catholic Ireland.
Who are Walter Raleigh and Humphrey Gilbert?