Vocabulary
This is a community ruled by another country, not it's own people.
What is a colony?
John Cabot was Italian, but his this country sponsored his exploration.
What is England?
This is what Ponce de Leon was looking for, but never found.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
What is it did not actually exist?
This is the waterway that Henry Hudson was looking for.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This is a supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This is why European explorers all wanted to find a route to Asia.
What is to trade silks and spices for money?
This is the tribe that Cortes fought with and conquered.
What is the Aztec tribe?
What is the Seven Cities of Gold in Cibola?
This is the river that La Salle explored.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another as germs are spread by touch or through the air.
What is a contagious disease?
What is poor treatment of Native Americans by Columbus?
This is the state that Ponce de Leon named.
What is Florida?
This is the river that Cartier named.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This is what Hudson and La Salle have in common.
This is the term used mostly in the past for Southeast Asia, including modern-day India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
What is the East Indies?
This was John Cabot's real name.
What is Giovanni Caboto?
This is why so many Native Americans died from contagious diseases spread by Cortes, among others.
What is because they were exposed to new diseases that spread quickly?
This is the major landmark in the southwest that Coronado "discovered."
What is the Grand Canyon?
This is what was named after Henry Hudson.
What is a river and a bay?
This is a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain.
What is a conquistador?
Finish the rhyme about Christopher Columbus:
In [year Columbus's exploration started]
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
What is 1492?
This is why Montezuma II and the Aztecs thought Cortes was a god.
What is they were expecting the return to earth of their god, Quetzalcoatl, at the time when Cortes arrived?
This is the religion that Coronado's exploration caused to spread in the southwest.
What is Christianity?
This is the state named by La Salle.
What is Louisiana?