European Exploration

_______________ reached America in 1497. He landed in what is now Canada, and is credited to establishing lands in North America for England.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

Europeans were trying to find a water route to __________________, they thought that this would make their country rich with its silk, spices, and treasures. 

• Asia
• America
• Antartica
• Australia

Columbus went _____________ from Europe to try to reach Asia. 

• north
• south
• east
• west

America was first known as the ______________ to Europeans. 

• United States
• New World
• Atlanta
• Canada

What was the name of the trade route that Columbus established from America to Europe?

• the Silk Road
• the St. Lawrence Shuttle
• the Columbian Exchange 
• the Polo Express

This man traveled completely around the world.

• Marco Polo
• Bartholomew Dias
• Ferdinand Megallen
• Vasco de Gama

The man proved Columbus wrong, and said that Columbus really landed in the New World not Asia like everyone thought. America is named after him. 

• Bartholomew Dias
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Marco Polo

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

What word means to travel completely around something?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

I was looking for the Northwest Passage in 1534. On my journey, I sailed down the Saint Lawrence River. France credits its claim of North America on my journey.

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Christopher Columbus