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Christopher Columbus
The 1500s
Exploring America
Spanish lands
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What tools did the explorers use to find direction?
What is a compass.
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What did Columbus set out to do?
What is find the western water route to Asia.
100
In 1521 Hernan Cortez had sailed to which North American country?
What is Mexico.
100
Who was the explorer to explore Arizona and the Grand Canyon?
Who is Coronando.
100
Who claimed the West Indies for Spain?
Who is Christopher Columbus.
200
What tool did explorers use to see where something was located?
What is a map.
200
Where did Columbus end up?
What is the Caribbean.
200
In 1521 Cortez conquered which empire?
What is The Aztec Empire.
200
Which explorer was the first to explore Florida?
Who is Juan Ponce De Leon.
200
Who claimed the Aztec Empire for Spain?
What is Hernan Cortez
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What tool did explorers use that helped them to determine how far they were from the equator?
What is astrolabe.
300
What year did Columbus set sail on his important journey?
When is October 1492.
300
Ferdinand Magellan went south along the coast of South America, which ocean did he discover?
What is the Pacific Ocean.
300
What is the fountain of youth? Where is it supposed to be?
Where is Puerto Rico. The Fountain was supposed to keep you young forever if you took a drink from it.
300
Who discovered Florida for Spain?
What is Juan Ponce De Leon.
400
What is navigation?
What is the process of planning a trip from one place to another.
400
What did the Spanish Explorers call themselves?
What is Conquistadors.
400
What was Magellan known best for doing?
What is circumnavigation (sailing completely around the world!)
400
Did Christopher Columbus really land in India?
What is no, he landed in the Caribbean.
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Who discovered the southwestern states of the United States?
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronando.
500
What is circumnavigation?
What is sailing around the circumference of the entire world.
500
What did Columbus name the area that he found?
What is the West Indies.
500
Coronando was another Spanish explorer who explored the southwest United States. He was one of the first to see this EXTRAORDINARY sight in Arizona.
What is The Grand Canyon.
500
Did Hernan Cortez explore North America? If not, where did he explore?
What is NO he explored Mexico.
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Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?
Who Ferdinand Magellan