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100
This was the continent that Columbus thought he was discovering.
What is Asia?
100
This explorer set up a school for navigation.
Who is Prince Henry?
100
This explorer is famous for conquering the Aztec.
Who is Cortez?
100
This was the name of the Northern part of Spain's new empire.
What is New Spain?
100
This Canadian province was an early French colony.
What is Quebec?
200
This was the group that Columbus encountered in the Caribbean Islands.
Who are the Taino?
200
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa trying to get to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
This explorer is famous for conquering the Inca.
Who is Pizzaro?
200
This was the highest class group; People who originally from Spain.
What are peninsularies?
200
This was the name the French gave to the area around the Mississippi River; Now a US state.
What is Louisiana?
300
Though Columbus sailed for Spain he was actually from this country.
What is Italy?
300
This Viking explorer landed in Newfoundland.
Who is Lief Eriksson?
300
This was the name of the Aztec leader who invited Cortez into Tenochtitlan.
Who is Montezuma?
300
These religion settlements included many Native Americans.
What are missions?
300
The French were mainly interested in trading this item.
What is fur?
400
This was the name of the Spanish priest who wrote many negative things about Columbus.
Who is Las Casas?
400
This explorer influenced others by writing a travel book. He did not invent the game named after him though.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
This was the name given to Spanish conquerors.
What is conquistadors?
400
This Spanish explorer traveled through much of the Southwest.
Who is Coronado?
400
Explorers from the Netherlands settled in this modern US state.
What is New York?
500
This was the name of Columbus's ship that ran aground.
What is the Santa Maria?
500
This explorer gets credit for discovering the "New World."
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
This disease killed many of the Aztec.
What is smallpox?
500
This was the earliest Spanish settlement and is still a city in Florida.
What is St. Augustine?
500
This river separates the US from Canada.
What is the St. Lawrence?