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Explorers Lapbook

Columbus was looking for a shorter trade route to Asia but instead discovered the Americas. The document discusses how Columbus, Pizzaro, and Cortez explored the New World in search of gold and treasure, with Cortez believing disease could only be cured by gold. Pizzaro captured the Inca leader Atahuallpa and promised to release him if given treasure, but killed Atahuallpa after receiving the treasure.

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Explorers Lapbook

Columbus was looking for a shorter trade route to Asia but instead discovered the Americas. The document discusses how Columbus, Pizzaro, and Cortez explored the New World in search of gold and treasure, with Cortez believing disease could only be cured by gold. Pizzaro captured the Inca leader Atahuallpa and promised to release him if given treasure, but killed Atahuallpa after receiving the treasure.

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His trip was

funded by
King

-----------------

and
Queen

Columbus was
-----------------
looking for a
shorter trade
route to the east
Indies.
But...
He found the
New World
instead!
Spain
Luke 12:15
Then [Jesus] said
to them ,"Watch
out!Be on your
guard against all
kinds of greed;a
m an's life does
not consist in
the abundance
of his
possessions."

Columbus
EARLY EXPLORERS

Pizzaro
Most explorers were searching for...

Cortez
Cannons
Horses

Guns

disease
“We suffer from
a disease only
Empire
Aztec

gold can cure.”


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Ho on
c INCA
The
Pizzaro captured Atahuallpa and promised to
release him if he was given a room full of treasure.

After the Inca gave him the treasure, he killed


Atahuallpa and kept the treasure for himself.

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