6th Grade World History - Chapter 10

Who was the missionary to Aniwa Island and New Hebrides?

• John Paton

• James Chalmers

• Thor Heyerdahl

• James Cook

John Paton was a missionary to which two islands/island chains?

• Aniwa Islands

• New Hebrides

• Papua New Guinea

• Hawaiian Islands

On which island settled by the Spanish did many of the settlers die of fever, including Mendana?

List the three geographic groups of the Pacific Islands.

• Melanesia

• Micronesia

• Polynesia

• Guinea

• Hawaii

____________ was the Norwegian explorer that theorized that the first Polynesians came from South America rather than Asia.

• Thor Heyerdahl

• Alvaro de Medena

• Pedro Fernandez de Quiros

• Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman explored for ___________.

___________ was once called New Holland.

• Australia

• Hawaii

• New Zealand

• the Philippines

Australia was called New _________.

Captain James _______ explored for England.

• Chalmers

• Paton

• Cook

• Mendana

Captain James Cook explored for __________.