On October 12, what was sighted, and what was it from?
Land was sighted from the Pinta
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What year did Columbus take 17 ships loaded with supplies to the Americas
1493
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Who showed Europeans the way to the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
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On August 3, 1492 Columbus left Spain with three ships. What were the ships names.
The Nina, Pinta, and the Santa maria
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Who claimed the island for the Spainish king and queen
Columbus
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Who did Columbus go to for money for his expidition?
King Ferdinad and Queen Isebella
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What goal did Spain have?
Spain had a goal to start a colony that would bring profits to Spain
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Many more Europeans followed who?
Christopher Columbus and Vespucci
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Why did the men fear that they would never see their homes again.
They had travled farther west then they thought possible.
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How expiditions did Columbus lead to America
3
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When did Columbus leave Spain?
August 3, 1492
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Why did many Native Americans die?
They had no deffense against smallpox and measles.
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What did Columbus and Vespucci do?
They went to the Americas
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What was sighted on October 12?
Land was sighted
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In what year did Columbus load 17 ships with settlers, animals, and other supplies
1493
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What were the names of the three ships Columbus took with him?
The Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
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What did the Spainish force the Native Americans to do?
They forced them to give up their own belifs, and work on farms growing surgarcane and other crops
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What are some reasons that Europeans followed Columbus and Vespucci?
They were in search of land and riches.
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Why did the Pinta fire a cannon?
Because it was a signal for land
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In addition to finding riches spain had a new goal for this trip, this goal was to...
was to start a colony that would bring profits to spain
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He wanted to find a better way to get gold and spices from the Indies. (Not the silk road)
What did Columbus want to find?
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What was the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere
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By the 1600s, where did the explorers and settlers come from. (They came from different places)
Settlers from Porugal, England, France, Sweeden, and the Netherlands had come to the Americas
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Historians believe that Columbus may have reached what islands?
The Bahama Islands
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Who in 1502 became the first to call the americas "the new world"