1. Christopher Columbus was born in the port city of Venice, Italy, at what age did he first work in the sea faring business and what was he doing?____________________________________________________________
2. Columbus’ maiden voyage took 36 days of ocean travel to find land, how many days of provisions were contained within the hulls of the three ships?____________________________________________________________
3. Christopher Columbus’ first journey to the new world was in 1492 and his last was in 1502, in the intermittent 10 years how many cross-oceanic voyages did he make?____________________________________________________________
4. Juan Ponce de Leon was the next Spanish explorer to travel throughout the Caribbean and North America, what was he searching for? __________________
5. According to the native lore one what island could this mythical item be located?

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6. Another explorer, Hernan Cortes, conquered the Aztecs in 1519. The Indians believed he was the reincarnation of a god, which god was that? ______________
7. After Cortes defeated the Aztecs he destroyed their capitol city of Tenochtitlan, what city did he build over its ruins? ____________________________________
8. Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first Spanish conquistador, what natural item was Balboa the first European to see? _______________________________________
9. Balboa was later convicted of treason by his enemies, in what country is his name living on as the national form of currency? _______________________________
10. An officer in Balboa’s battalion, what Spanish explorer would later require the largest ransom for one of his captives in the world’s history? ________________
11. What system of forced labor did this explorer institute on the natives he had conquered? ________________________________________________________
12. What explorer captained the Endeavour in search for the great continent in the southern latitudes known as Terra Australis? _____________________________
13. In 1773, the same explorer became the first to cross what line in the southern latitudes? _________________________________________________________
14. In 1778 the Sandwich Islands were spotted in the South Pacific, what is the name of those same islands today? __________________________________________
15. The continents of North and South America are named after the same Italian explorer, what his name and what his position (job) during the ear of exploration?

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