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Europeans Reach America

Authored by Chris Amato

Social Studies

5th - 6th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

These Europeans were led by Eric the Red, and were chased out of the Americas by Native Americans.

Pilgrims

Puritans

Vikings

Greenlanders

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This famous explorer is responsible for telling amazing stories of spices and jewels. He sparked the exploration of Asia by traveling on foot from Italy to China.

Ferdinand Magellan

Christopher Columbus

Bartholomeu Dias

Marco Polo

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He set up a navigational school to find a sea route to Asia, discover unknown lands, and to spread the Christian religion.

Prince Henry

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco da Gama

Amerigo Vespucci

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, which led to discovering a passage from Europe to Asia, by going around the tip of Africa.

Vasco da Gama

Ferdinand Magellan

Bartholomeu Dias

Henry Hudson

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He kept 2 logs of his travels, fooling his crew into thinking they were closer to home than they actually were. He also gave the name "Indians" to the people he discovered in the Indies.

King Ferdinand

Christopher Columbus

Bjarni Herjulfsson

John Cabot

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This "sea of darkness" led the way to America. The European explorers hoped that it would lead directly to Asia by sailing west across it.

Pacific Ocean

Gulf of Mexico

Indian Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This famous Italian realized that Columbus was wrong! He had not found Asia, but an entirely new land. We even named a nearby continent after him.

Amerigo Vespucci

Salvador Africano

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco da Gama

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