WorksheetsEarly Explorers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
An (a) is a person who travels looking for new land and discoveries.
2.
A (a) is the course you take to get somewhere.
3.
Long ago, spices were valuable. People used spices to keep food from spoiling. Spain hired (a) , an explorer born in Italy, to sail to China to search for spices.
4.
Christopher Columbus began his journey to China in (a) .
5.
Columbus did not find (a) , but he did land on an island off the coast of present day Florida instead.
6.
When he first saw the people living there, he called them (a) .
7.
He called them Indians because he thought he had reached the (a) , near southern China.
8.
Columbus had three ships, (a)
9.
(a) was another explorer who sailed from Spain.
10.
(a) were named in Amerigo Vespucci's honor.
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