How many days did it take Columbus to reach the New World?
33 days
100
What was the metal found by the explores in Vespucci's letters?
What is gold
100
Who describe the indigenous people for having for having "reddish skin" and "hair that is plentiful and black"?
Vespucci
100
Vespucci mentions that the rain falls four how many hours in paragraph 10?
3-4 hours
200
King ______ and Queen _______ gave Columbus money and support to find the new world.
What is Fernandina and Isabella
200
What was some of the instruments that Vespucci used to help navigate his ship to the Americas?
What is Quadrant and Astrolabe
200
In paragraph 12, Vespucci mentions how he watches the stars and every night there were innumerable vapors and burning _____.
What is meteors
200
Columbus describes how the indigenous people have no armor. What weapons does the indigenous people use?
What is sharpen sticks
200
Where did the indigenous people think Columbus and Vespucci came from?
They came from the sky/heaven
300
How many voyages did Columbus go on to the New World?
4
300
What was the name of the 5th Island that Columbus named?
What is Juana
300
Vespucci talks about some of the trees in the New World. Name one out of the three things the trees produce that Vespucci talks about.
What is gums, oils, and liquors
300
Columbus stops his sailors from giving ______ to the indigenous people in exchange for gold.
What is broken hoops of wine barrels, broken glass, and ends of straps.
300
Vespucci mentions that he heard a man in the indigenous peoples tribe ate ____ humans.
What is 300
400
Daily Double!!!!!
On May 14th 1501, Vespucci sailed from ____ to the Americas.
What is Lisbon
400
When Columbus came to the Americas, he thought he was in the province of ______.
What is Cathay
400
Columbus mentions that he hears a ____ and other birds singing.
What is a nightinggale
400
Daily Double!!!!!
Vespucci talks about how the women in the tribes cure themselves with roots and herbs. He then exaggerates that they live to be ____ years old.
What is 150
400
Columbus states in 13th paragraph that he will bring the King and Queen of Spain gold, spices, and ____ back with him.
What is cotton
500
Vespucci sailed to the Fortunate Islands which the explores changed the islands' names to ______.
What is the Grand Canary Islands
500
Complete the quote from Vespucci's letters in the 2nd paragraph. "What a thing it is to seek unknown lands, and how difficult, being _____, to narrate briefly what happened."
What is ignorant
500
Columbus describes the fauna and mentions how the New World has many different types of palm in the 3rd paragraph. How many kinds of palm did Columbus mention the New World has?
What is 6-8 palm
500
What was one of the customs the indigenous people practiced that Columbus and Vespucci disapproved of?
Cannibalism
500
Vespucci talks about near the end of his letter, going on a fourth voyage where he is already promised ___ ships.