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Spanish Explorations MS Chapter 3 Section 1

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Carefully read each paragraph and answer the following questions. Respond in complete sentence form. Capital letter in the beginning of a sentence. Apply evidence frames, transitional phrases, correct puncuation.
1. Prince Henry the Navigator conducted a special school in Portugal for seamen and explorers and helped launch the Great Age of Exploration.
Christopher Columbus had studied geography and cartography (the art and technique of making maps and charts) in Portugal under Prince Henry. He was convinced that the world was round and that he could sail west and eventually arrive in the Indies. Columbus persuaded the King of Spain to
provide him with three ships and crewmen and supplies for his historic voyage in 1492. Columbus was correct in his belief that the world was round, but he did not know about the American continents, which the Europeans would call the New World.
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Who sponsored the special school for seamen and explorers?

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Define cartography

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Who sponsored Christopher Columbus voyage?

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Columbus reason for this voyage was to do what?

Hernando deSoto’s Expedition
2. In the early 1540s, less than fifty years after the discovery of the New World, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto trekked across the land that would become the state of Mississippi. This
expedition (a journey for a specific purpose, such as exploration) was the beginning of what
historians call the European period, or colonial period, of American history. The great powers of Europe—Spain, France, and England—were locked in
a two-hundred-year struggle to control the New World and its vast wealth.
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Define expedition

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According to the paragraph, what 3 great powers of Europe were in a 200 year struggle for control?

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Define colonial period

3. Hernando de Soto had served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru. He dreamed of leading his own expedition and finding even greater riches than
those discovered among the Inca peoples of South America. In May 1539, de Soto landed at Tampa Bay, Florida, with a large expedition that included 620
men and women, 223 horses, a drove of swine, and a pack of dogs. Among his men were a physician, several priests, carpenters, and blacksmiths (who
were needed to repair the metal armor worn by de Soto’s soldiers). From Tampa Bay, de Soto marched northward through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina before turning back southwestward and continuing through Alabama and Mississippi. De Soto reached the Mississippi River on May 8, 1541.
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In paragraph 3, who were the people de Soto conquered and list the continent.

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In May 1539, where did de Soto land?

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Define blacksmiths

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Read the paragraph, what other states did de Soto travel ?

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When did de Soto reach the Mississippi River?

4. After spending about a month building rafts to ferry his men and supplies across the great river, de Soto continued westward through Arkansas into east Texas. Failing to find any gold or other treasure in Arkansas and Texas, de Soto returned to the river, where he died from a long-festering wound suffered in an earlier battle. Hernando de Soto was buried in the muddy waters of the great river that will always be associated with his name. After de Soto’s burial, the survivors of his expedition, which was less than half its original size, sailed down the Mississippi to the Gulf Coast, where they followed the coastline
to the settlement at Tampico, Mexico.
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In paragraph 4, what exactly was de Soto searching for? what were the last states de Soto travel?

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After de Soto's death, according to the text, where did the remaining people of the expedition settle?

Th e Beginning of European Rivalries
5. After de Soto’s failure to find any treasure,
the southern woodlands were undisturbed for
another 130 years. Eventually, the great pow-
ers of Europe realized that the real treasures of
the New World were not gold and silver. More
profit could be made from trade and commerce
with the colonies (geographical areas politi-
cally controlled by a distant country) that could
be established in this vast land that Columbus
had discovered. So France, Spain, and England
began establishing colonies in the New World.
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After 130 years, Europe realized what about the New World?

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Define colonies

6. As long as these European colonies were
located along the fringes (on the coastline of
North America), there was minimal contact or rivalry among the nations. But as the settlements began to move inland and the nations started claiming the same territory, that rivalry spawned (generated) a series of colonial wars. Those wars would ultimately result in the removal of the European powers from North America and the emergence of the United States. The place called Mississippi was right in the middle of that rivalry.
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In paragraph 6, the author uses the word "fringe" after reading the sentence, give your analysis of what the author is saying.

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Define spawned

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After reading paragraph 6, in your own analysis, what ultimately caused the series of wars between nations.

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When did Mississippi become a state?