MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 61

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Hernando de Soto

• A)conquered the Incan Empire
• B)wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
• C)led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe,but was killed in the Philippines
• D)began the Protestant Reformation
• E)was the captain of the Santa María
• F)led the first French effort to colonize the New World
• G)defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
• H)explored what is now the southeastern United States
• I)a priest who advocated for humanitarian treatment of natives
• J)founded the first British colony in the New World at Roanoke Island

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