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3rd Grade (SS) European Explorers

Authored by Phil Chaffer

Social Studies

3rd Grade

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3rd Grade (SS) European Explorers
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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European explorers were looking for a Western route to where?

Africa

Europe

Asia

Antartica

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When Christopher Columbus reached land he called the inhabitants what?

Indians

Westerners

Spanish

Friends

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which European explorer was the first to 'discover' the Americas ?

John Cabot

Hernando de Soto

Christopher Columbus

Henry Hudson

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who was the first European explorer to cross the Americas to the Pacific Ocean?

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Christopher Columbus

Jacques Cartier

Henry Hudson

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who was the first European explorer to see the Mississippi River?

John Cabot

Hernando de Soto

Christopher Columbus

Jacques Cartier

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Why did so many of the European explorers get lost or think they had fond Asia when they had not?

Explorers refused to stop and ask for directions

Some explorers created new maps

Explorers did not have maps for the area

New maps were useful for later expeditions mpmapm

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What was John Cabot looking for?

His lost cell phone

The north-west passage to Asia

A faster way to South America

Native Americans to convert to Christianity

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