AHON Chapter 2 Europe Looks Onward Voc

This explorer, ____________________, grew up near Genoa, Italy, and sailed on the ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria .

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Queen Isabella

This explorer, _______________ , was a Spanish colonist that explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama.

• Christopher Columbus

• King Ferdinand

• Vasco de Nunez Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

This explorer, ___________________ , set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage and was killed in a battle with Filipinos.

• Christopher Columbus

• Queen Isabella

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

A ___________________ is a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water.

• strait

• land

• circumnavigate

• negative

____________________ is the opposite to something regarded as positive.

• circumnavigate

• strait

• negative

• Ferdinand Magellan

To ____________________ means to travel around.

• strait

• negative

• Queen Isabella

• circumnavigate

A ________________ is a traditional story of unknown authorship.

• strait

• myth

• negative

• circumnavigate

___________________________ were soldier-adventurers that set out to explore and conquer a world unknown to them.

• missions

• myths

• conquistadors

• plantations

In 1519, ________________________ sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers.

• Hernando Cortes

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• King Ferdinand

_______________ was an Aztec leader who met with Hernando Cortes and tried to get him to leave by offering him gold.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Moctezuma

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolome de Las Casas