Early European Explorers

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

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

_______________ was kicked off his boat by his crew and was never heard from again.

• John Cabot
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Henry Hudson
• Jacques Cartier

Which of the folowing is an obstacle faced by the early explorers?

• bad weather
• no maps
• ran out of supplies
• all of the above

The explorer whose crew were the first to ever circumnavigate the world

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Ponce de Leon

The person who arrived in what is now Mexico and conquered the Aztecs

• John Cabot

• Ponce de Leon

• Samuel de Champlain

• Hernan Cortes

The Atlantic trade system that sent livestock, enslaved people, and unintentional diseases to the Americas, and food and other resources to Europe, was called

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Silk Road

• The Northwest Passage

• I-74 West

The people who were interested in claiming and exploring land, searching for gold and the fountain of youth, spreading Christianity to natives, and who forced Native Americans to work for them

• The Spanish Conquistadors

• The British/English

• The French

• The Dutch (Netherlands)