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What explorer's ship was the first to sail around the world?
LaSalle
DeSoto
Magellan
Polo
What ocean did Megellan name?
Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
Indian
What did DeSoto accomplish?
He gathered information about the land.
He discovered the Mississippi River.
He claimed land in the Southeastern U.S.
All of the above.
Discovered the Americas, he reached the new world in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Giovanni de Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
He sailed up the St. Lawerence River and explored Canada
Giovanni de Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Explored the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait
Henry Hudson
Christopher Columbus
Jacques Cartier
A waterway through North America that explorers thought would connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Columbian Exchange
Expedition
Northwest Passage
The exchange of goods, plants, animals, ideas that took place between Europeans and Native Americans.
Northwest Passage
Columbian Exchange
Expedition
Who founded a navigation school in Portugal?
Columbus
Magellan
Prince Henry
1st European to discover North America
Columbus
Vespucci
Ericson
La Salle
Bartolomeu 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.
What world leaders paid for Columbus expenses across the Atlantic Ocean.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Charles the Bold and Louis XII of France
Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire.
Manuel I of Portugal
I was searching for the Fountain of Youth, and though I never found it, I was the first to step foot on what is today U.S.A. soil.
de Soto
Erikson
Columbus
Ponce de Leon
What are spices, jewels or other items that have been brought from another country called?
Fame
Foreign Goods
Portage
Settlement
Who led the search for the seven cities of gold?
Estevanico
Coronado
La Salle
De Soto
Where did Columbus actually go on his first trip across the ocean?
the Bahamas
New York
the Indies
South America
Which European group conquered the Aztecs and the Incas?
the French
the English
the Dutch
the Spanish
Who conquered the Incas and created a Spanish Colony on South America (Peru)?
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
Which modern American state did Juan Ponce de Leon explore?
Florida
Texas
California
New York
He sailed to the West Indies and South America. America got its name from this explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci
Francis Drake
Juan Ponce de Leon
Henry Hudson
Who found the rich fishing area in North America and explored Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Labrador?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
The first European to reach India by going around Africa
Marco Polo
Bartolomeu Dias
Prince Henry
Vasco da Gama
He traveled to China. People wanted to travel there because of his book.
Marco Polo
Prince Henry
Bartolomeu Dias
Lief Ericson
He searched for the Northwest Passage, and the entrance to the New York Harbor is named after him.
John Cabot
Giovanni da Verrazano
Henry Hudson
Jacques Cartier
The Europeans wanted what items from China?
silver, the wheel, horses
diseases, gold, natives
gold, silk, spices
turkeys, chickens, fruit
Why did explorers want to find a sea route to China?
They were afraid of getting a disease.
They wanted a faster and cheaper trade route.
They could not cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The Turks closed the Silk Road.
Leif Ericson is known for
being the god of thunder
discovering Russia
discovering Vinland
discovering the ruins of a Viking camp
Leif Ericson was an explorer who explored__________________.
Iceland
Greenland
Vinland
Africa
Why did Ericson name the settlement in Canada "Vinland"?
Because it had to many Vines to travel through.
The settlement contain vines good for weaving.
The settlement had many grape vines.
Because it was family name
Who was the King of the Aztecs
Quetzalcoatl
Velazquez
Hernando de Soto
Montezuma II
The Viking settlement Vinland was located in what modern day country?
France
Greenland
Canada
United States
How do we know the settlement of Vinland existed?
Lief Ericson's son wrote about it in his book.
Lief Ericson's body is buried there.
There are still Viking ancestors living there.
Archaeologists found Viking remains there that were over 1,000 years old
How did the Spanish Army defeat the mighty Aztec?
Technology of better weapons
Cut off supplies into the empire
Disease made the Aztec sick
Many native allies
Why was Columbus given credit for finding the new world?
He was the first.
He was more well known.
He had journals of his adventures.
He found the Northwest Passage.
While sailing to the unknown, why were Columbus' s sailors ready for mutiny?
They saw Native Americans.
They were competing with other sailors to get to Asia first.
They didn't think Columbus had a good plan.
They were fighting over gold
