European explorers

Sailed small ships across large oceans in search of new lands. 

• Explorers
• Age of Exploration
• New World

The period in the 1500s when Europeans started searching for lands they did not know is called the ...

• Explorers
• Age of Exploration
• New World

Even though American Indians had lived there for thousands of years, Europeans called the Americas the ...

• Explorers
• Age of Exploration
• New World

Explorers generally did not bring anything of value back from the lands they found. 

• True
• False

Europeans wanted to explore new lands to convert native people to Christianity and to claim land. 

• True
• False

He was born in Italy and sponsored by Spain. He landed in the Bahamas and thought he was in Asia.

• Columbus
• Balboa
• Cabot
• Hudson

All explorers wanted this so that they could get rich!  I was not always shiny, but it was always used to make money!

• Gold
• God
• Glory

Missionaries came to spread this in the new world!

• God
• Gold
• Glory

Who sailed from England to Canada?

• Columbus
• Cabot
• Cartier
• Hudson

Which of the following was a reason for European exploration?

• shorter route to asia
• gold, wealth, and fame
• to spread Christianity
• all of the choice