Descubrimiento de América

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the voyage sponsor?Spanish monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I
2. What is the primary motivation?To find a westward sea route to the East Indies
3. What happened when Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492?Columbus sailed with three ships and landed on an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, discovering lands Europeans had never seen before.
4. Why did Columbus think he reached Asia?He believed he had reached the East Indies because he was traveling west and thought the Earth was smaller, so he thought the island was near Asia.

Reconquista: The centuries-long period during which Christian kingdoms gradually retook territory from Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
Transatlantic Slave Trade: The forced migration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to work as enslaved labor in the Americas.
Great Dying: The widespread mortality of Indigenous peoples in the Americas following contact with Europeans, primarily due to introduced diseases.