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Spain
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Around and Around
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100
Genovese map maker that sailed to America. He convinced the Spanish monarchs (king and queen) to pay for his voyage.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
These continents were named for the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
What are North and South America?
100
The trading of goods and organisms that started with Columbus's journey.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
He died before finishing his journey around the globe, but his crew carried on.
Who is Magellan?
100
A grain crop native to the Americas.
What is corn?
200
King of Spain. Had just finished fighting a war with the Moors.
Who is King Ferdinand?
200
To sail around the world.
What does it mean to circumnavigate?
200
A 1400 era term for most of Asia, including India, Pakistan, China, Japan, and Korea.
What are the Indies?
200
Magellan sailed for year safely on the water, but died in the Philippines doing this.
What is fighting for the King of the islands.
200
A people that lived in what is now Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
300
Queen that financed Columbus's expedition.
Who is Queen Isabella?
300
First reached the horn or southern end of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
300
Where Columbus thought he landed.
What are the Indies?
300
Magellan's crew's rations for almost four months.
What are wormy powdered biscuits, yellow water, and sawdust?
300
Built a large city in the mountains in what is now Latin America.
Who are the Incas?
400
Spain sought a sea route to the Indies in order to find easier access to these food items.
What are spices?
400
Sailors used this instrument to navigate.
What is an astrolabe.
400
The island on which Columbus landed.
What is San Salvador?
400
A narrow sea passage
What is a strait?
400
Earliest known European settler of America.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
500
Spain and this country argued about what part of the Americas and Africa they would control.
What is Portugal?
500
Magellan sailed through a strait in this area in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
What is the southern tip of South America?
500
Reached India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
500
Magellan's crew brought a shipload of these back to Spain. The sale of this item more than paid for the journey around the globe.
What are cloves?
500
A league of five native nations in north America. They called corn, squash, and beans the five sisters.
Who are the Iroquois?