Age of Exploration

Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

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What did Queen Isabella do for Christopher Columbus?

• sponsored his exploration
• married him
• made him royalty

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

• Cortes
• de Leon
• de Soto
• Pizarro

I started a school for navigators and people who wanted to go out exploring.

• Columbus
• Prince Henry
• Polo
• Magellan

I am an Italian explorer who was hired by the King of England to go out exploring after Columbus.  I landed on what is today Newfoundland, but I thought I was in Asia.

• Vespucci
• Cabot
• Erickson
• Balboa

I was the person who named the Pacific Ocean.  My men were among the first to travel around the world, but unfortunately I died in battle in the Philippine Islands.

• Balboa
• Vespucci
• Columbus
• Magellan

I am a conquistador that conquered the Aztec empire and built Mexico City.

• Pizarro
• de Soto
• Cortes
• Coronado

I was searching for the Fountain of Youth, and though I never found it, I was the first to step foot on what is today U.S.A. soil.

• de Soto
• Erikson
• Columbus
• de Leon

What was the purpose of Columbus' expeditions?

• To find a shorter route to Asia by sailing west
• To claim land in Canada
• To explore the Hudson Bay
• None of the above