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The famous explorers in the age of exploration

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name

Class

Date

What was Hernan Cortes's motive for exploring?

Find a route to Asia

Bling

Adventure

To spread Christianity

What group was conquered by Cortes

Maya

Inca

Anasazi

Aztecs

Who was Atahaulpa?

The last Inca king

A football player

A historian that studied the Aztecs

An Aztec son god

When Dias finally spotted land again, it was on the west side of the boat. What did this mean?

They were lost.

They were headed back towards Portugal.

They had rounded the tip of Africa.

They were headed south.

Why do you think Dias called the Cape of Good Hope the Cape of Storms?

He wanted to warn people about the dangers.

He had gotten caught in a storm while he was sailing there.

He didn't want anyone to sail as far as he had sailed and thought this would scare people.

He thought it described the people who lived in this area.

What was Vasco da Gama most known for

First European to sail from Europe to India by going around Africa

First to circumnavigate the globe

First to visit the South Pole

Discovering America

How many ships did Vasco De Gama take on his first voyage?

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of ________________.

Geneva

Genoa

Georgia

India

Columbus made a total of ____ journeys.

10.

What did Amerigo Vespucci find out about America ?

That it was not asia

That is was not Africa

11.

Where did Amerigo want to go?

Asia

Austalia

12.

In what year did Leif Ericsson found (start) a settlement in Canada?

1010

1400

1001

1500

13.

Were was Leif erikson from?

Greenland

South Carolina

ICELAND

Scandanavian penensula

14.

What was Pizarro's main motive for conquering the Incas?

God

Glory

Gold

For fun

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The famous explorers in the age of exploration

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

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