5th grade explorers

Which explorer is credited for proving that you could reach the East by sailing West

• Magellan

• Coronado

• Cortez

• Vespucci

Coronado was looking for...

• The fountain of Youth

• The Seven Cities of Gold

• The Aztec Capital

• An all water route to Asia

The explorer who realized that the Americas were new continents and not Asia was...

• Coronado

• Magellan

• Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

The explorer who was the first to find an all water route to Asia was...

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry

• Marco Polo

The tool that helped explorers tell how far north or south they were.

• Compass

• Gunpowder

• Sails

• Astrolabe

This merchant wrote a book that made Europeans more interested in sailing.

• Marco Polo

• Zheng He

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Mansas Musa

Why did Hernando de Soto explore Florida?

• to build missions

• to discover the Fountain of Youth

• to find the Seven Cities of Gold

• to conquer and settle Florida

What were the Spanish farms in America called?

• Presidios

• Haciendas

• Missions

• Ranches

Where did Columbus first Land?

• in Asia

• at Cape Horn

• on an island in the Caribbean Sea

• in South America

What goods were brought from Europe to the Americas in the Columbian exchange?

• squash beans cacao

• coffee bananas horses

• coffee hogs tomatoes

• buffalo elk sheep