Age of Exploration Test - Hunt

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)

French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)

a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior

a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)

a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519

the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

a contagious viral disease caused by the Variola major virus

joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I

Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)

the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built

Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)

a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea

a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands