European Exploration Quiz

Why did Europeans set out to find new routes to Asia?

• To explore unknown seas

• To study American Indians

• To trade spices and silks

• To search for sunken ships

Who was one of the explorers who sailed to North America looking for a route to Asia?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Vasco da Gama

When did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?

• 1992

• 1546

• 1492

• 1684

What did the Europeans find instead of a route to Asia?

• Unknown seas

• Spices and silks

• The American continents

• Sunken ships

What did the scientists studying sunken ships look for?

• Silks

• Artifacts

• Navigation tools

• Spices

What do the artifacts found on sunken ships tell us about?

• The expeditions of Native Americans

• The expeditions of Europeans

• The lost navigation tools

• The lost spices and silks

What did Europeans call the lands they discovered?

• The Old World

• The Unknown World

• The Lost World

• The New World

Who had lived in the New World for thousands of years before Europeans arrived?

• Explorers

• Sunken ships

• Scientists

• Native Americans