Question

According to a chivalric novel by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, this region was ruled by a Black queen whose Amazon-like warriors trained griffins so they could fly and fight Christians near Constantinople. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this region whose misconceived geography by conquistadors was publicly corrected by Eusebio Kino with a series of expeditions around 1700.
ANSWER: island of California [accept answers indicating California is an island; accept Baja California is an Island; prompt on California or Baja California with “What was the misconception about it?”] (Queen Calafia is considered the source of the name “California.”)
[10m] This Dominican friar criticized the falsehoods of pro-conquistador historians such as Oviedo. This man was given the title “Protector of the Indians” for his advocacy against slavery in the 16th-century Spanish Empire.
ANSWER: Bartolomé de las Casas
[10e] Conquistadors high off chivalric fantasies searched for this mythical city of gold inspired by Muisca folklore.
ANSWER: El Dorado
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YaleBard0101020
Columbia CColumbia A001010
GathererColumbia B10101030
Lehigh BLehigh A001010
NYU BNYU A001010
RutgersNYU C0101020