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The Vikings came from where?
What country decided to help Columbus' voyage?
Spain
What were both Coronado & Ponce de Leon looking for?
a) new wildlife
b) mythical places
c) a place to build settlements
b) mythical places
The process of charting a course for a ship or aircraft
navigation
known today as Canada
What was the settlement called by Columbus?
a) St. Augustine
b) Caribbean Sea
c) La Isabela
c) La Isabela
What was Ponce de Leon looking for specifically, but never found?
The fountain of youth
A small fast sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the 1400s
caravel
Portuguese
Moctezuma of the Aztecs, offered gifts to Cortes. What did Cortes do in return?
took Moctezuma Prisoner
What is the oldest town established by Europeans in the U.S?
a) Georgetown
b)Washington DC
c) St. Augustine
St. Augustine
an instrument used in navigation
astrolabe
Which Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the bottom tip of Africa?
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Bartolomeu Dias
c) Christopher Columbus
B
How long did Magellan sail, and with how many ships? Double points if you remember how many returned and why he never made it back home.
5 months, 5 ships.
1 ship and he was killed by the Philippines
What was Coronado searching for on his journey in the south east?
hint: what are these conquerors always looking for?
A kingdom of Gold
magnetic compass, astrolabe
Who opened a school for navigation and mapmaking?
Prince Henry of Portugal
What were the four reason's for Columbus's voyage:
to find___
to trade___
to spread___
to start____
-A new route to Asia by sailing west
- to trade for gold and spices
- to spread Christianity
- to start a new settlement
What four reasons did settlers go to New Spain?
-set up government
-teach christianity
-start farms and businesses
-looking for gold and silver