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European Exploration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in western South America. | Francisco Pizarro |
| An all-water route to Asia that Europeans were searching for in the 14 and 1500s. | Northwest Passage |
| The country who sent Christopher Columbus out in 1492. | Spain |
| The European given credit for "discovering" America. | Christopher Columbus |
| A powerful disease that killed many Native Americans who had no immunity to it. | Smallpox |
| The country Columbus thought he was in on his first voyage. | India |
| Where Columbus actually went. | West Indies |
| A Spaniard who tried to create a colony near Salisbury and Morganton. | Juan Pardo |
| A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs. | Hernando Cortes |
| The site chosen for England's first attempted American colony. | Roanoke Island |
| The name given to England's first American colony. | Virginia |
| A military man who served as governor of the 1st attempted colony at Roanoke Island. | Ralph Lane |
| An artist who served as governor of the 2nd attempted colony at Roanoke Island. | John White |
| A scientist who went to Roanoke Island to classify new plants and animals. | Thomas Harriot |
| Settlements far from home but ruled by the home country. | Colony |
| The legal right to create a colony. | Charter |
| Chief of the Native Americans near Roanoke Island. | Wingina |
| Native Americans who traveled back to England with the Amadas and Barlowe Expedition. | Manteo and Wanchese |
| Man given a charter to create an English colony in America. | Walter Raleigh |
| Leader of England who wanted to compete with Spain for power and glory. | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Leaders of an expedition sent to America to find a place for an English colony. | Amadas and Barlowe |
| The first person of English descent born in America. | Virginia Dare |
| The nickname given to the John White Colony because we don't know for sure what happened to the colonists. | Lost Colony |
| Took the Ralph Lane Colony home. | Sir Francis Drake |
| Returned with supplies two weeks after the Ralph Lane Colony abandoned Roanoke Island. | Sir Richard Grenville |
| Spanish for "Conqueror". | Conquistador |
| The three main reasons conquistadors went exploring. | God, Gold, and Glory |
| The words carved on a tree and fencepost when John White returned to Roanoke in 1590. | Cro and Croatoan |
| A huge fleet sent to attack England in 1588 that kept John White from returning to Roanoke Island. | Spanish Armada |
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