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The year Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492.
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The country he was born in.
What is Italy.
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Hernan Cortes led an expedition to _______.
What is Mexico.
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The legend of the fountain of youth.
What is if you drink from this fountain you will be young again.
200
The number of ships and men he took on his voyage.
What is 3 ships and 90 men.
200
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is the exchange of goods from Europe to America and from Spain to America.
200
Hernan Cortes went to Mexico with 500 conquistadors because...
What is they were eager to find wealth and fame.
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The name of the explorer who died before making it all the way around the world.
What is Ferdinand Magellan.
300
The name of the island Columbus landed on.
What is San Salvador.
300
True or False: The rain forests were cut down to build sugar plantations.
What is TRUE.
300
The group of Indians in Mexico that were the rulers.
What is the Aztecs.
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The term that means to go completely around.
What is circumnavigate.
400
The name of the King and Queen who gave money to Columbus to go on his voyage.
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth.
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True or False: Pedro Alvarez Cabral explored South America in 1500 and claimed it for Mexico.
What is FALSE. He claimed it for Portugal.
400
Cortes attacked and killed the Aztecs when they were ________.
What is sick from the European diseases.
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The man who found Florida and was looking for the fountain of youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon.
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The reason Columbus wanted to sail.
What is he wanted to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean, instead of South around Africa.
500
The man who America is named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci.
500
In 1535, Spain claimed all of Mexico and renamed it _______.
What is New Spain.
500
This caused the migration of Indians to America.
What is the Ice Age.