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Christopher Columbus
Religion
Vocabulary
Makin' Money
Background
100
This is the year Columbus set sail
What is 1492
100
This is the religion the Europeans tried to bring Natives to believe in
What is Christianity?
100
This is a person who goes to look at new places.
What is an explorer?
100
This is the most common reason, according to document 1, for explorers coming to the New World.
What is to find golden cities of Cibola?
100
These two continents make up the New World
What are North and South America?
200
Columbus was from this country.
What is Italy?
200
Father Kino, a Catholic priest, did this to about 300 Natives in holy water.
What is baptized them?
200
These are the people who were already living in the Americas.
Who are the Natives?
200
Some explorers hoped to make money by growing and selling plants, which process is also called this.
What is farming?
200
In your paper, the side you choose is called your ______
What is position or claim?
300
The king and queen of this country funded Columbus's trip.
What is Spain?
300
Building these buildings was important for converting Natives.
What are churches?
300
The first Natives got into America by crossing one of these.
What is a land bridge?
300
This is a precious metal that many explorers wanted to mine in order to become rich.
What is gold?
300
Explorers were originally looking for a waterway to this land.
What is Asia?
400
Columbus ended up landing at these islands.
What are the West Indies?
400
These people came over with the explorers to convert Natives.
Who are priests?
400
This is a piece of evidence from a certain time period that gives us information about that period.
What is a primary source document?
400
This is the most gold that was exported from the Americas in one year.
What is seven million ounces?
400
This is the word for a person who studies history.
What is a historian?
500
During Columbus's time, people thought the world was this shape.
What is round?
500
In document 6, it says that this conquistador had to tell Natives to believe in one god and to respect the King and Queen of Spain.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
500
This word means to change someone's mind from believing in one thing to believing in another.
What is to convert?
500
This is one of the explorers who was looking for Golden Cities.
Who is (De Soto, Cabrillo, Coronado)
500
Europeans made many natives work for free, or become these.
What are slaves?