What did you say his name was?
This man traveled through Asia with his father in the late 1200's and was called The Man With A Million Stories.
Who is Marco Polo?
This term means Spanish soldier.
What is conquistador?
Jacques Cartier's job was to find this all-water passage through the new land to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The explorers and settlers brought this with them that killed many native peoples.
What is disease?
La Florida means this.
What is flowery Easter?
This man's voyage was financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Ponce de Leon was supposed to find this, which was believed to make old people young again.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
Columbus died still believing he had found this.
What is Asia?
Before smallpox, measles, and influenza wiped out entire villages, there were more than 100 thriving American Indian pueblos in New Mexico. By 1700, only this many remained.
What is 19?
This man took over the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, renaming it New Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This period was a period of lively new thinking named after this word which means "rebirth"
What is Renaissance?
Fur trappers from Quebec pushed west in search of these valuable resources.
What are beaver pelts?
The Europeans who came to America brought germs that lead to outbreaks of this disease and other deadly diseases amongst the American Indian population, wiping out as many as 90 percent of the native population.
What is smallpox?
La Salle claimed everything west of the Mississippi River for France and named it this.
What is Louisiana?
This was the Inca ruler that Pizarro murdered.
Who was Atahualpa?
This island name means "Holy Savior".
What is San Salvador?
Menéndez successfully drove the French out of their Florida base and built a fort on the peninsula’s Atlantic coast named this.
What is St. Augustine?
The Aztecs had never seen men dressed in metal armor and riding horses before and they mistook this man for the great Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, and welcomed him as a hero.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
These cities were said to be so fabulously rich that the streets and houses were decorated with gold and jewels.
What were the Seven Cities of Cibola?
This man made his fortune discovering gold while sailing with Columbus and eventually established La Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
This word means a village of apartment-like buildings made of stone and adobe rising four and five stories high.
What is pueblo?
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's goal was to find these.
What are the legendary golden cities?
This man killed the Inca ruler Atahualpa and took over the leaderless empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
In 1608, Champlain sailed up this river and built a trading post he called Quebec.
What is the St. Lawrence River?