SS8H1: EUROPEAN EXPLORATION

In what year did Christopher Columbus get credited with discovering The America's?

• 1492

• 1776

• 1781

• 1494

Moorish (African)/Spanish, was the chief navigator of pilots who sailed with his brothers on Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World.

• Juan Columbus

• Pedro Alonso Nino

• Hernando de Soto

• Juan de Gama

Indians native to the Caribbean, Jamaica, Cuba Puerto Rico, and Hispanola who were enslaved by the Spaniards after Columbus's claim on the island. They were subjected to hard labor in mining and farming, and in 1511 they rebelled, but were crushed by the Spanish.

• Cherokee

• Seminoles

• Tainos

• Native American Indians

What were the names of the three ships that sailed with Columbus on his first voyage to America?

• Nombre, Nina, Maria

• Santa Cruz, La Bonita, La Hermana

• El Bonita, La Santa Maria, La Nina

• Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria

Which country did Christopher Columbus sail for?

• France

• Italy

• Portugal

• Spain

In 1492, during his voyage what part of the Americas' did Columbus actually land in?

• Puerto Rico

• Jamaica

• San Salvador/The Bahamas

• Florida