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This Italian explorer opened the door for European Exploration.
What is Christopher Columbus
This country sponsored Columbus's Voyage
What is a caravel?
What religion did King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella, and Columbus want to spread?
What is Christianity?
This Queen sponsored Columbus's expedition.
What is Queen Isabella?
Prior to Columbus's Voyage, this country was dominating world exploration.
What is Portugal?
This German invention would help make literature more accessible.
What is the Printing Press?
This jingle is used to remember the date that Columbus sailed.
Who is Leif Erikson?
When Columbus landed in the New World, he thought he had made it to this country.
What is India?
This disease was the #1 killer of Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
This was part of Columbus's motivations for exploring.
What is the Spread of Christianity, Gold, or the expanse of the Spanish Empire?
The Native group that Columbus first encountered.
What is the Taíno?
Marco Polo was from this country.
What is Italy?
This navigational improvement helped explorers know where they were at on the globe.
What is the sextant, astrolabe, or compass?
The Treaty of Tordesillas put the line of demarcation to separate the territories of these two countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
The map made by __________ influenced Columbus's decision to go to the new world.
What is Toscanelli?
This present day country is where the Vikings first landed in the New World.
What is Canada?
This is the name for a map maker.
What is a cartographer?
What were the Spanish conquerors called?
What are the conquistadors?