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This is the year Christopher Columbus's exploration began.
What is 1492?
This colorful cereal is often associated with a toucan mascot.
What are Froot Loops?
When Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, he believed he was heading to this region of the world.
What is Asia?
This Spanish king and queen funded Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492.
Who are Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand?
This is Ms. Richard's favorite animal.
What is a Peregrine Falcon?
This is a scientist who studies artifacts to learn about past cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
This was Christopher Columbus's occupation.
What is a sailor?
This European country sponsored the most explorers.
What is Spain?
This tool helps people navigate and shows the locations of places, landforms, and bodies of water.
What is a map?
This is a plant that is grown in large quantities for sale.
What is a cash crop?
This was the first person to claim land in North America (according to your text).
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This item has a magnetic needle balanced on a small metal post, which the needle can spin freely on. The needle's point is attracted to the powerful magnetic field that lines up close to the North Pole.
What is a compass?
According to legend, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León searched for this mythical spring believed to keep you from aging.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
This was the most common motive for explorers.
This German monk started the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This explorer sailed for Holland, or the Netherlands.
Who is Henry Hudson?
These were the least common occupations of the explorers.
What is soldier and merchant?
This explorer established England's first claim in North America.
Who is John Cabot?
After hearing a tale from an enslaved American Indian about a land of gold, this Spanish explorer marched to present-day Kansas. Finding no treasure, he became angry and had the enslaved person killed.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
These were the most common impacts that explorers had in the New World.
What is claiming lands and providing new information for maps?
In 1492, Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand completed the Reconquista by defeating this group in Granada.
Who are the Muslims?
This was an early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars.
What is an astrolabe?
These four explorers most mistreated the American Indians.
Who are Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortes, and Francisco Vasquez de Cornado?
This explorer was the last to claim land in North America.
Who is Robert de la Salle?
This explorer claimed Florida for his European sponsor.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?