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• The man credited with first discovering America

Answer 1 – 10

• Christopher Columbus

Question 1 - 20

• The man America is named for

Answer 1 – 20

• Amerigo Vespucci

Question 1 - 30

• Juan Ponce de León died searching for what?

Answer 1 – 30

• The Fountain of Youth

Question 1 - 40

• The conquistador who is credited with destroying the Aztec civilization

Answer 1 – 40

• Hernándo Cortez

Question 1 - 50

• The Spanish explorer who was searching for “gold-bearing mountains”

Answer 1 – 50

• Hernando de Soto

Question 2 - 10

• The Aztec civilization lived in the present day country of…

Answer 2 – 10

• Mexico

Question 2 - 20

• Individuals charged with spreading Catholicism (their religion)

Answer 2 – 20

• Missionaries

Question 2 - 30

• The name for Spanish conquerors in the New World

Answer 2 – 30

• Conquistadors

Question 2 - 40

• Francisco Pizarro found the fabled empire of the Inca in what country?

Answer 2 – 40

• Peru/Chile

Question 2 - 50

• The name of the Aztec ruler who was taken hostage by Cortez

Answer 2 – 50

• Montezuma

Question 3 - 10

• Florida was claimed by Ponce de León for France

Answer 3 – 10

• Fiction

Question 3 - 20

• Columbus was the first explorer to reach the New World

Answer 3 – 20

• Fiction

Question 3 - 30

• Lucas Vázquez de Ayllon was the first European to attempt to settle North Carolina

Answer 3 – 30

• Fact

Question 3 - 40

• Ponce de León lived to make it back to Cuba from his failed expedition to find the Fountain of Youth

Answer 3 – 40

• Fact

Question 3 - 50

• Columbus was the first European to think the earth was round

Answer 3 – 50

• Fiction

Question 4 - 10

• What country took over Florida after Spain left?

Answer 4 – 10

• England

Question 4 - 20

• What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Answer 4 – 20

• The invisible line that was drawn to divide where Portugal and Spain could explore/conquer

Question 4 - 30

• Why did smallpox ravage the Aztecs?

Answer 4 – 30

• It had never been encountered in the New World, so they had no immunities

Question 4 - 40

• The Columbian Exchange was what?

Answer 4 – 40

• Trade of goods (and diseases) between the Old World and the New World

Question 4 - 50

England and France tried to discover a route to trade with Asia called…

Answer 4 – 50

• The Northwest Passage

Question 5 - 10

• Why is Brazil the only South American country that speaks Portuguese as the primary language?

Answer 5 – 10

• Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 5 - 20

• This disease wiped out the Aztec civilization more than the Spanish weapons

Answer 5 – 20

• Smallpox

Question 5 - 30

• The official term for the Spanish navy during this time period

Answer 5 – 30

• The Spanish Armada

Question 5 - 40

• What were the three G’s of Spanish Motivation?

Answer 5 – 40

• God, Glory, and Gold

Question 5 - 50

• What ancient civilization conducted ritualistic human sacrifices?

Answer 5 – 50

• The Aztecs

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