Early Explorers Summative

1. What country sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyage to the New World?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Portugal

What were the 3 main countries that sent explorers to the New World?

• England, France, and the Bahamas

• England, France, and Spain

• Germany, France, and Ireland

• Italy, Spain, and Portugal

To go all of the way around the Earth is to _____________.

• Equate

• Latitudinate

• Circumnavigate

• Circulate

Henry the Navigator was an explorer for the country of __________.

• England

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

When Hernando Cortez explored the New World, he ended up conquering the ___________ people.

• Inca

• Pueblo

• Anasazi

• Aztec

European explorers were sent to the New World for

• gold, spices, and ships

• gold, land, and to convert the native peoples to Christianity

• silver, pearls, and slaves

• slaves, navigators, and cartographers

Who is called the father of New France?

• La Salle

• Cartier

• Cabot

• Champlain

The English explorer whose crow left him adrift in Hudson Bay is __________.

• Henry Huggins

• Charlie Hudson

• Henry Hudson

• Henry Cabot

Jacques Cartier claimed the region that is now __________ for France.

• The United States

• Mexico

• Canada

• Cuba

Robert la Salle explored this body of water: ______________.

• Lake Champlain

• Hudson River

• Mississippi River

• New Orleans River