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Savvas Realize 2.1 Conquistadors & Explorers

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Question Image

Match the following

a)

Narvaez

1.

Expedition ended in disaster

b)

De Soto

2.

Explored Florida for gold

c)

Coronado

3.

Looked for legend "seven cities of gold"

d)

de Vaca

4.

Enslaved African, walked 1,000 miles

e)

Ponce de Leon

5.

Looked for legend "Fountain of Youth"

2.

__________ was the first state de Soto explored.

a)

Mississippi

b)

Louisiana

c)

Florida

d)

Alabama

3.
Ponce De Leon discovered the following valuable land.
a)
Puerto Rico and Florida
b)
New Mexico and Spain
c)
America and India 
d)
Italy and Portugal 
4.
What was the "Fountain of Youth"?
a)
It was believed that if you drank from it you would stay old forever.
b)
It was believed that if you drank from it you would stay young forever.
c)
It was a place where all the young people lived.
d)
A waterfall located in Spain 
5.
What does the name "Florida" mean?
a)
Hot sun
b)
Land of the free
c)
Home of the brave
d)
Covered in flowers
6.

Who was the leader of de Vaca's expedition?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Panfilo de Narvaez

d)

Juan Ponce de Leon

7.

Which conquistador survived a shipwreck in Texas, lived with Natives as a slave, a shaman, and a trader? He then made his way back home and wrote a book about his travels, which included a story about a city filled with Silver and Gold?

a)

Cortes

b)

Coronado

c)

Cabeza de Vaca

d)

Pineda

8.

He drowned off the coast of Texas from a storm while on an expedition to explore the region close to Florida.

a)

Coronado

b)

Pineda

c)

De Soto

d)

Moscoso

e)

Narvaez