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Explorers Ch. 3 Lesson 2 & 3

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An Italian explorer who made voyages to South America and realized that this was not Asia, but a totally new land

a)

John Cabot

b)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

c)

Amerigo Vespucci

2.

A Spanish explorer who reached the ocean to the "west" and discovered...but did not name... the Pacific Ocean

a)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

b)

Martin Luther

c)

John Cabot

3.

an agreement between countries about peace, trade or other matters

a)

isthmus

b)

cost

c)

treaty

4.

North America and South America were named after this explorer

a)

Amerigo Vespucci

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

5.

an Italian explorer, Giovanni Caboto, who explored the "sterile land" of Canada and Newfoundland for the English

a)

Amerigo Vespucci

b)

John Cabot

c)

Fernando Magellan

6.

This explorer named the Pacific Ocean

a)

John Cabot

b)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

7.

Pacific means ___________

a)

great water

b)

private

c)

peaceful

8.

a Portuguese explorer who led an expedition to sail west across the Pacific Ocean to Asia AND he named the ocean

a)

Ferdinand Magellan

b)

John Cabot

c)

Amerigo Vespucci

9.

a narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas

a)

treaty

b)

conquistador

c)

isthmus

10.

the Spanish explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth and became the first to set foot in the United States

a)

Hernando Cortes

b)

Juan Ponce de Leon

c)

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

11.

Florida means __________

a)

flowery

b)

from the ocean

c)

youth

12.

This Spanish explorer fought the Aztecs and told of a golden city

a)

Juan Ponce de Leon

b)

Hernando Cortez

c)

Hernando de Soto

13.

a sum of money given to do something

a)

treaty

b)

grant

c)

conquistador

14.

a religious teacher sent by a church to spread its religion

a)

conquistador

b)

reform

c)

missionary

15.

a Spanish soldier or conqueror in the Americas during the early 1500s.

a)

missionary

b)

reform

c)

conquistador

16.

a water supply that supposedly made old people young forever

a)

isthmus

b)

Fountain of Youth

c)

Counter-Reformation

17.

a change for the better

a)

reform

b)

treaty

c)

missionary

18.

Spanish explorer who searched for the golden cities of the Aztecs but never found them.

a)

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Francisco Pizarro

19.

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas.

a)

Juan Ponce de Leon

b)

Francisco Pizarro

c)

Martin Luther

20.

German priest who called for reforms or changes in the Catholic Church

a)

Hernando Cortes

b)

Francisco Pizarro

c)

Martin Luther

21.

This Spanish explorer was one of the first to see the Mississippi river and explore the southeastern United States. He landed near Tampa Bay.

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

Hernando de Soto

c)

Martin Luther

22.

The efforts that the Catholic Church used to try to keep power...like burning books that went against its teachings.

a)

conquistador

b)

isthmus

c)

Counter-Reformation