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Early Explorers

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
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.