I am known for discovering the Caribbean Islands, on a "good mistake", I took the natives after they helped me and enslaved them.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
My crew sailed around the world but I died by getting speared in the Philippines by natives.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
2 part question.
A person who buys and sells items to make _________.
What is a merchant? What is profit?
100
Most explorers wanted to sail to what two countries?
What is China and India?
100
If you are Chinese, you are from...
What is China?
200
I was the first to sail around Africa and get all the way to India in 1497.
The Mosambique were not happy about Christian explorer being there.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
200
I conquered the Aztecs in Mexico and claimed the land for Spain, many in Montezuma called me a God.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
A group of people based on their country.
What is ethnicity?
200
What are the three countries that are neighbors, just above Africa?
What is Portugal, Spain and France?
200
If you are ___________ , then you are from Italy.
What is Italian?
300
In a horrible voyage, that took much longer than planned, my men starved and a few 18 survived, on my way to the Indies.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
I was the first to go around the tip of Africa because a storm blew me off course, this opened a route to Asia. They call this location the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
300
A disease caused by lack of Vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
300
In the 15th century, they believed there was only one hemisphere, which one was it?
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
300
Name two items the merchants wanted from other countries?
What are luxuries? spice? fabric? gold?
400
I started a navigation school and sent people around Africa, all sponsored by my Father the King of Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
400
I traveled to China as a merchant on my father's ship. When I returned, I was put in prison, however I had help writing a book of my voyage by Rustichello. This book inspired many explorers to come.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Food items that can spoil or go bad. Examples: fruit, bread, meat and fish.
What is perishable?
400
List the 5 oceans.
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian and Southern.
400
What group of people lived in Constantinople and controlled the land routes, this is when everyone had to figure out a way to get around them?
Who are the Turks?
500
I discovered the country of Brazil.
Claimed it for Portugal, which is why although Brazil is in South America, the people speak Portugese and not Spanish.
Who is Pedro Cabral?
500
In 1513 I was the first to sail in the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Balboa?
500
2 part question...To sail all the way around the world and a person that creates a map on the way.
What is circumnavigate? Who is a cartographer?
500
List the 7 Continents of the World.
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica?
500
List 3 things that happened ont he voyage of Magellan?
What is scurvy? they got lost? many people died? only 18 survived? they starved? Magellan died? it took 5 months? he named the Pacific Ocean? named the tip of South America the Strait of Magellan?