Ponce De Leon

What country sponsored Juan Ponce De Leon?

• America
• Spain
• India
• Mexico

What was Ponce De Leon's purpose for exploring? 

• To find Christopher Columbus and his crew.
• To find the Pacific ocean
• To find India and a quicker route to the New World.
• To find gold and the Fountain of Youth

Ponce De Leon discovered the following valuable land.

• Puerto Rico and Florida
• New Mexico and Spain
• America and India 
• Italy and Portugal 

What was the "Fountain of Youth"?

• It was believed that if you drank from it you would stay old forever.
• It was believed that if you drank from it you would stay young forever.
• It was a place where all the young people lived.
• A waterfall located in Spain 

Who did Juan Ponce De Leon sail with to the Americias?

• Marco Polo
• Vasco Nunez De Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

What does the name "Florida" mean?

• Hot sun
• Land of the free
• Home of the brave
• Covered in flowers

How did Ponce De Leon die?

• He was beheaded.
• He was wounded by an arrow during a battle with Native Americans.
• He was placed on trail and sentenced to death
• He died of old age

All of the following were accomplishments of Ponce de Leon

• Found gold in Puerto Rico and was the first to step foot in what is now the continental United States, in Florida.
• He discovered a shorter trading route to India and found America.
• He discovered the Pacific Ocean. 
• He discovered what is now known as India. 

One of the obstacles that Ponce De Leon faced was?  

• He had to cross over land to discover the Pacific Ocean.
• He couldn't find a sponsor.
• He fought with Native Americans 
• He loss to many men and ships.

how did he treat the native popultion ?

• as people and evenly

• never interacted to the natives

• treated them as slaves

• didn't really care about them