Explorers and Their Discoveries

Who was a Moroccan traveller and scholar known for writing The Rihla?

• Vasco da Gama

• Ibn Battuta

• Mungo Park

• Amerigo Vespucci

Which explorer was born in present-day Nigeria, kidnapped into slavery, and wrote a book that helped stop the slave trade?

• Olaudah Equiano

• Christopher Columbus

• Richard Lander

• Bartholomew Diaz

Who was the first European to sail from Europe to India by going around Africa in 1498?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

• Mungo Park

• Prince Henry the Navigator

The River Niger was explored by which Scottish explorer?

• Mungo Park

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Richard Lander

• Christopher Columbus

Richard and John Lander were famous for tracing the course of which river?

• River Nile

• River Niger

• River Thames

• River Amazon

Who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa)?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartholomew Diaz

• Olaudah Equiano

Who set up a navigation school in Portugal and is called the Father of Portuguese Exploration?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Richard Lander

Which explorer discovered the New World (Americas) in 1492?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartholomew Diaz

Who led the first expedition to sail around the world?

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Mungo Park

Which Italian explorer realized the Americas were a new continent and had it named after him?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Olaudah Equiano

• Ibn Battuta