Science/Enlightenment/Exploration

Who sponsored Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de Leon?

• England
• Spain
• France
• Germany

Where did Christopher Columbus land?

• Jamestown, Virginia
• Quebec, Canada
• St. Augustine, Florida
• San Salvador, Bahamas

Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?

• Magellan
• Cortes
• Columbus 
• Vespucci

Who was the lost explorer that was given credit for discovering the Americas?

• Cortes
• Megellan
• Columbus
• Mr. Pearson

I believed I could read Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.  I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.

• Cabot
• de Leon
• Columbus
• Cortes

Which of the following was NOT a reason the early explorers began to make voyages?

• To serarch for gold and riches
• To omake friends with the Native Americans
• To spread their religion
• The explorerers want to become famous.

Christopher Columbus thought he had reached India, but he had really landed in______.

• Florida
• Canada
• the Bahamas
• Hudson Bay

I was the first guy to finally realize that Cabot and Columbus were NOT in Asia, but they had been in a new land.  America was named after me.

• Vespucci
• Polo
• Balboa
• Magellan

I was truly the first person in the Americas.  I arrived here with my Viking friends in the year 1000 AD.

• Columbus
• Polo
• Erickson
• Cabot

I took control of the Inca empire and claimed it for Spain.

• Cortes
• de Leon
• de Soto
• Pizarro