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Explorers Review

Authored by Steve Stewart

History

8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

First to circumnavigate the globe (well his crew was – he was killed around ½ way.)


Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci

Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Started as a slave trader and a pirate for the English (his motivation was competition with Spain).  He was the first actual captain to circumnavigate the globe.


Francis Drake

John Cabot

Vasco da Gama

Zheng He

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He walked a ton!  He spread Islamic culture through the Africa and the Middle East.


Ibn Battuta

Francis Drake

Bartolomeu Dias

Leif Ericson

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

America is named after this guy because he claimed the western hemisphere was a “New World” and not part of Asia.


Amerigo Vespucci

Henry Hudson

Leif Ericson

Samuel de Champlain

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first European to set foot in the Americas.  He beat everyone by hundreds of years – stayed for a bit, and then went back to his Viking bro’s.


Leif Ericson

John Cabot

Henry Hudson

Juan Ponce de Leo

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Found Newfoundland.


John Cabot

Vasco da Gama

Ibn Battuta

Francisco Pizarro

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He has more water named after him than any other person.  He was also kicked off his boat and left to die in the cold.


Henry Hudson

John Cabot

Ferdinand Magellan

Hernando de Soto

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