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This is what Columbus brought back from America
What is plants and animals?
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The explorer who proved you could sail around the world.
Who is Magellan?
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The spanish word for conquerer
What is a conquistador?
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The leader of the Aztec empire when it was defeated.
Who was Moctezuma?
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Diseases that killed of Native Americans.
What are epidemics?
200
The country Columbus was from.
What is Italy?
200
The explorer who defeated the Aztec empire.
Who is Cortes?
200
A cruel system in which people were bought and sold and forced to work for no money.
What is slavery?
200
What some Spanish explorers went in search of.
What is the "fountain of youth"?
200
An invention that let books be printed and allowed people to notify the public easily.
What is the printing press?
300
The country Columbus tried to sail to, but reached America instead.
What is India?
300
One of the explorers who went to America in search of gold.
Who is Coronado?
300
The money left over.
What is a profit?
300
Something that changed as people discovered more land.
What are maps?
300
The people that approved and payed for Columbus' expidition.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
400
The country Columbus reached when he tried to sail to Asia.
What is Cuba?
400
The explorer that discovered and named Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
400
To sail around the world.
What is circumnavigating?
400
The center of the Aztec empire that is now Mexico city.
What is Tenochtilan?
400
A slave that survived a shipwreck with three other men.
Who is Estevanico Dorante?
500
The names of Columbus' three ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
500
An Italian merchant who lived in China for 17 years.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
An instrument that measured the height of the sun.
What is an astrolabe?
500
Pacific means this.
What is "peaceful"?
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Allying enemies of the Aztecs.
How did Cortes defeat the Aztecs?