Explorers Check-up

Marco Polo traveled to Asia because he desired to -

• learn about Chinese medicine

• make money by selling things he brought back from the trip

• gain inspiration to write a novel about his trip

• study the government of China

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

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Christopher Columbus thought he had reached India, but he had really landed in______.

• Florida
• Canada
• the Bahamas
• Hudson Bay

_____________ discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and explored over 1000 miles of the St. Lawrence River.

• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Vasco Nunea Balboa
• Christopher Columbus

Which European country sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyages?

• England
• Mexico
• France
• Spain

The time in history when many Europeans searched for new land was the...

• Artifact
• Age of Exploration
• Explorers
• Natives

The first people to live in an area are...

• artifacts
• explorers
• scurvy
• natives

Scurvy is an illness caused by a lack of...

• vitamin C
• protein
• clean water
• food

I was truly the first person in the Americas. I arrived here with my Viking friends in the year 1000 AD.

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Leif Erickson

• John Cabot

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.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan