Spanish Exploration

What are the three reasons for exploration?

• God, Glory, and Gold
• Goods, Gold, Guns
• Gold, God, Guns
• Glory, Guns, Goods

Why did the Age of Exploration start?

• To discover new land
• To discover a new route to the Spice Islands in Asia
• To get more gold and silver distributed out into the world
• To expand European kingdoms

Who is Christopher Columbus?

• The first Spanish explorer to set foot in the Americas
• The first Spanish explorer to conquer the Aztecs
• The first to build a colony in the New World for Spain
• The first to make the Line of Demarcation

Why is the Line of Demarcation important to exploration?

• It settled a dispute between England and Spain over exploration in the New World
• It settled a dispute between France and Portugal regarding Brazil
• It settled a dispute between Portugal and Spain regarding  the Atlantic's exploration
• It settled a dispute between the Pope and the Natives over religion in the new world

Which of the following is not part of the cycle of conquest and colonization?

• Explorers
• Conquistadors
• Missionaries
• Peninsulares

Who was the first explorer to land on the Peninsula of the Yucatan and had contact with the Maya?

• Ponce de Leon
• Juan de Grijalva
• Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Who was sent by the governor of Cuba to explore and have first contact with the Aztec?

• Christopher Columbus
• Juan de Grijalva
• Hernan Cortes
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Which explorer/conquistador would create his own town of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz and eventually conquer the Aztec?

• Christopher Columbus
• Ponce de Leon
• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pisaaro

Which explorer/conquistador would officially claim that Columbus found a new world in the Americas?

• Christopher Columbus
• Ojeda/Vespucci
• Hernan Cortes
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Which explorer/conquistador would officially conquer the Inca empire?

• Christopher Columbus
• Ponce de Leon
• Juan de Grijalva
• Francisco Pisaaro