Explorers

Explorers

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Through out the centuries, brave explorers have fearlessly travelled the globe and beyond to discover new lands, people, animal species, riches and glory. Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal proved that the world is round with his mission to sail around the world. His fellow countryman Vasco da Gama commanded the first European ship around the southern tip of Africa to reach India by sea.

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Norseman Leif Eriksson is as the first European to reach North America, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus, who is credited in discovering the "New World" of the Americas. Juan Ponce de León scoured Puerto Rico and Florida in his quest for the fountain of youth.

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Travelling to new heights of discovery were mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the peak of Mount Everest and U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, These fearless explorers and more have made a permanent mark on human history.

Multiple Choice

How did the explorers travel the globe.

• Fearlessly

• Fearfully

• Thoroughly

• Actively

Multiple Choice

____ of Portugal proved the world is round with his mission to sail around the world

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Zheng He

• Ferdinand Magellan

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____ _________ was the first man to walk on the moon

Multiple Choice

Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb the peak of __ _______

• K2

• Mt Indiana

• K5

• Mt Everest

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Juan Ponce de León scoured ______ ____ and Florida in search for the fountain of youth.

Multiple Choice

____ ________ was the first European to reach North America

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da gama

• Leif Eriksson

• Juan Ponce