A powdered mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal used in fireworks, rockets, guns, and cannons.
What is gunpowder?
100
The ship that Columbus sailed on.
What is the Santa Maria?
100
Y Luján.
What is Francisco's maternal family name?
100
The tool that lets sailors know in which direction they are sailing.
What is the compass?
100
The monarchs that ruled Spain.
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
An angle which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles.
What is latitude?
200
The people that gave funds to Columbus.
What is the Spanish Monarchs?
200
The date that Coronado set out from Compostela.
What is February 23, 1540?
200
A popular book printed on the printing press.
What is The Travels of Marco Polo?
200
Will you support my expedition?
What is the question that Columbus asked the monarchs?
300
An instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of the magnetic north pole.
What is a compass?
300
The condition that bothered Columbus.
What is arthritis?
300
A wealthy civilization that a "Turk", as the Spanish called him, described.
What is "Quivira"?
300
A long, narrow ship that could carry more cargo, move in any direction, and was more seaworthy than other ships.
What is the caravel?
300
The things that Columbus said to make the monarch support him.
What is persuading?
400
An instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects.
What is a sextant?
400
Columbus died from these conditions.
What is Reiter's syndrome, gout, and fevers?
400
A simple land with Indians that lived in straw-thatched houses. Also, there was only a copper pendant which Coronado found.
What is the actual Quivira?
400
This instrument is used for telling the altitude of the sun at midday or the North Star at night.
What is the astrolabe used for?
400
The first king that Columbus asked to support him.
What is King John II?
500
An instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant.
What is astrolabe?
500
Four voyages.
What is the number of voyages that Columbus made?
500
A small tied island near San Diego.
What is Coronado?
500
The date that the quadrant was invented.
What is the year 1730?
500
The Catholic Monarchs.
What is the title that Ferdinand and Isabella were commonly referred to?