Instructions

 Get out a blank piece of paper and put your name,
date and class period in the top right corner.
 For each explorer or conquistador, use the links on
the right of the screen to answer the questions on the
left.
 You will have 20 minutes to complete this
assignment.
Christopher Columbus

 What was the goal of
Columbus’s expedition?
 Why did he want to sail
west?
 Where did his expedition
actually end up?
 The Columbian Exchange,
also known as the Great
Exchange, is the
(complete the sentence)
 http://ageofex.mariners
museum.org/index.php?t
ype=explorer&id=12
 http://www.rmg.co.uk/e
xplore/sea-andships/facts/explorersand-leaders/christophercolumbus
 http://ageofex.mariners
museum.org/index.php?t
ype=webpage&id=6
Ferdinand Magellan

 What were the
achievements of
Magellan’s expedition?
 Describe the conditions
onboard the ships as
they travelled across
the Pacific Ocean.
 What happened to
Magellan in the
Philippines?
 http://ageofex.mariner
smuseum.org/index.ph
p?type=explorer&id=8
 http://ageofex.mariner
smuseum.org/index.ph
p?type=explorersection
&id=5
Hernan Cortes

 What were
conquistadors and
what were they hoping
to gain from their
expeditions?
 What were Cortes’s
accomplishments?
 What disease
weakened the Aztecs
and why did so many
die from it?
 http://www.pbs.org/o
pb/conquistadors/mex
ico/adventure2/a1.htm
 http://ageofex.mariner
smuseum.org/index.ph
p?type=explorer&id=34
 http://www.pbs.org/o
pb/conquistadors/mex
ico/adventure3/popdisease.htm
Francisco Pizarro

 Where did he explore
and conquer?
 Which group did he
conquer?
 What was Atahualpa’s
Ransom?
 What happened after
the ransom was paid?
 http://ageofex.mariner
smuseum.org/index.ph
p?type=explorer&id=64
 http://www.pbs.org/o
pb/conquistadors/per
u/adventure2/a1.htm
Answer the following questions
based on what you have learned.

 Which conquistador would you have wanted to
travel with: Cortes or Pizarro? WHY?
 Would you have wanted to be an Aztec warrior or a
conquistador? WHY?
 Describe how the world would be different had
Europeans explorers like Columbus not made it to
the Americas and the Columbian Exchange had
never taken place.