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Language of Discipline
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Technological Developments
Monarchs of Exploration
100
The science of planning and following a route.
What is Navigation?
100
1492
What is the year Christopher Columbus set sail for Asia?
100
1540
What is the year Francisco Vasquez de Coronado set sail for his exploration?
100
a tool used to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
100
King Henry VII
What is who paid for the Italian sailor Giovanni Caboto's expedition?
200
the effort made to achieve or gain something.
What is cost?
200
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
What is the two people who gave Christopher Columbus money to find Asia?
200
gold
What is the resource Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was searching for on his expedition?
200
a tool used to determine the altitude, or the height above the horizon, of the sun or the stars.
What is a sextant?
200
Spain
What is the country that sent Hernando Cortes on an exploration to the Aztecs?
300
something that is gained.
What is benefit?
300
Pinta, Santa Maria, and the Nina.
What is the names of the ships that Christopher Columbus took to sail to Asia?
300
the South Western United States.
What is the lands that Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his crew actually explore?
300
tool used to keep accurate time and measure the position of certain stars based on the time.
What is a chronometer?
300
Mexico City
What is the city De Niza explored?
400
The use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something.
What is technology?
400
Atlantic Ocean
What is the ocean Christopher Columbus crossed to find land?
400
New Spain
What is the name Francisco Vasquez de Coronado gave to the land he claimed?
400
material originally used in fireworks and rockets.
What is gunpowder?
400
The Catholic Church
What is who sent missionaries to America to convert the Indians?
500
The plan to make Spain all Catholic.
What is the Reconquista?
500
Indians
What is the name Christopher Columbus gave the people of San Salvador?
500
Marcos de Niza
What is the name of the explorer that told Francisco Vasquez de Coronado the story of a golden city?
500
In China
What is where was gunpowder discovered?
500
Mexico
What is the country that sent Estevanico to find the seven cities of gold?