European Explorers

What was Columbus looking for?

• gold

• silk

• spices

• all of the above

Columbus searched for many years for someone to give him money to sail to the west. Which leaders and country finally gave him money?

• His mom

• King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Italy

• Leif Erikson

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Was Columbus the 1st European to believe the world was round.

• True. Everyone thought the world was flat.

• False. It was already common knowledge that the world was round.

Why did people from Europe not attempt to sail to India by heading west across the Atlantic Ocean?

• They thought the ocean was too big to cross and people would run out of food before they reached India.

• They were not sure how to sail west.

• They were worried their boats would not make it.

• All of the above.

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

At the beginning, what was the purpose of Portuguese explorations?

• trade

• colonization

• sailing

• catch animals

This explorer defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed all of Mexico in the name of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world by sailing.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

Bartholomeu Dias proved that it was possible to

• find a water route to India.

• travel from Portugal to India.

• circumnavigate Africa when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the “Cape of Good Hope.”

• create the most sophisticated maps of their time.