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Explorers and Conquistadors Webquest

Explorers and Conquistadors Webquest. 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.

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Explorers and Conquistadors Webquest

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  1. Explorers and Conquistadors Webquest

  2. 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.

  3. 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.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=explorer&id=12 • http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/facts/explorers-and-leaders/christopher-columbus • http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=webpage&id=6

  4. 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.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=explorer&id=8 • http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=explorersection&id=5

  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/opb/conquistadors/mexico/adventure2/a1.htm • http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=explorer&id=34 • http://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/mexico/adventure3/pop-disease.htm

  6. 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.marinersmuseum.org/index.php?type=explorer&id=64 • http://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/peru/adventure2/a1.htm

  7. 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.

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