Spanish Explorers Quiz

The 800 year struggle where Spaniards battled the Moors (North African Muslims) to regain Spain is called?

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Indegenious

• Reconquista

Early Spanish explorers received support not only by the King of Spain, but by this very wealthy and powerful group.

• Merchants

• Other Nations

• Catholic Church

• Peasents

Early explorers were trying to find a Northwest passage to what countries?

• Hawaii and Australia

• India and China

• Africa and Australia

• Saudi Arabia and Iraq

The significant reasons why early Spanish Explorers were drawn to explore North America was the lure of:

• Glory, God, and Guts

• God, Grief, and Gain

• Gold, Guts, and God

• Glory, Gold, and God

The most noted explorer who sailed across the ocean in 1492 was:

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Marco Polo

As a result of early exploration of the Western Hemisphere, there was an exchange of plants, people, ideas, fruit, animals, what is this called?

• Colombian Coffee

• Colombian Exchange

• Colombian Movement

• Peruvian Exchange

What was a positive exchange as a result of European contact with Native Americans?

• Transfer of corn to Europe

• Death due to Smallpox

• Death from Measles

• Death due to the Plague

What was not a positive exchange as a result of European contact with Native Americans?

• Learning to grow corn

• Taking Potatoes back to Ireland so they would rot

• Death of Native Americans due to diseases like Smallpox

• The bringing of citrus fruits like Oranges to the Americas

Hernan Cortez battled what Native American culture in modern day Mexico City?

• Caddo

• Apache

• Karankawa

• Aztecs

The early Aztecs had spears and handmade shields to defend themselves were defeated by the Spanish with the introduction of swords, armor, guns and...

• clubs

• horses

• airplanes

• satellites