When Spain Ruled Amerigas

Why do you think Spain and Portugal sailed the seas and explored new lands during the 1500's?

• to search for Gold

• to search for Silver

• To spread religion to native people that did not practice religion

• For fame.

• Definitely all of the above

Around the turn of the 16th century, or 1502, Columbus was arrested in Cuba and taken back to Spain and stripped of his titles. This was mainly because he ________.

• Claimed to find the fountain of youth, but did not.

• Claimed to find the lost city of El Dorado, but he did not.

• Claimed to invent the Dorito, but he did not.

• Claimed to find a faster route to the East Indies or to Asia, but he did not.

• Claimed to be someone else when he left his wallet in El Segundo, which may have happened, but its not why he was arrested by Ferdinand and Isabella.

America is not named Columbia, because America is named after or for the Italian explorer _______?

• Juan Ponce Deleon

• Francisco Vasquez Coronado

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando De Soto

• Ferdinand Magellan

Amy got lost trying to walk from her house to 7-11. Kevin can't believe she got lost and sarcastically says to her. "Wow, Amy! You are quite the Magellan". He called her Magellan because Magellan is known for________.

• circumnavigating the world by sailing all the way around Earth.

• inventing a GPS device in 2010 that helped people with directions.

• inventing a computer program that is easy to navigate.

• being the first person to use a flashlight and he invented MagLite.

• his delicious gelato recipe that later became known as the famous Ma-Gelato's in Rome.

Juan Ponce Deleon was searching the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico area in 1513. He actually was looking for the mythical Fountain of Youth when he discovered the area that we now call the State of ______. He named it this because of the celebration of flowers, or which state is between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico?

• Wyoming

• Kansas

• Tennessee

• Oklahoma

• Florida

Mr. Sanders said that the early part of the 16th century, or between 1502 and 1540, the Spanish Explorers went _____.

• to the edge of the flat Earth and fell off into space.

• to the Bering Strait and settled with the Clovis people or first native Americans.

• CRAZY with exploration! They explored all over North and South America. From Canada to the Southern tip of South America and even walked across Panama to see the Pacific Ocean.

• to Roanoke to settle, but were attacked by Bigfoot, a swamp-ape, a chicken-lizard, or some other type of witchcraft magic, but nobody really knows for sure.

• to Jupiter, but they pronounced it Yupiter, because of the silent J.

Vasco Nunez De' Balboa made it through the Isthmus of Panama to be the first European to reach the _______.

• North Pole

• East Coast of the Pacific Ocean, or the West coast of America.

• Heavyweight Title Fight against Apollo Creed. His nickname was Rocky.

• Great Myan pyramid of Chichen-Itza. This may be true, but not what he is known for, and definitely not the answer I'm looking for here.

Which civilizations did the Spanish Conquistadors conquer?

• Inca, Myan, Aztecs, and other native American civilizations.

• Chinese, Australian, and New Zealand.

• Russia, Mosco, and Poland.

• America, South America, and Greenland.

The Spanish explorers dominated during the first part of the 16th century.

• True

• False

People that live in South America and Mexico speak Spanish because the Spanish conquistadors conquered their civilization, converted them to Christianity, and taught them to speak Spanish.

• True

• False