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WorksheetsWorld Explorers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain. He was also responsible for spreading catholicism to the natives of the New World.
Christopher Columbus
Batholomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
Prince Henry
Hernando de Soto
Juan Ponce de Leon
What country was the first to find a sea route to Asia?
Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Why did European rulers want to find a sea route to Asia?
So they could control trade routes and make money.
So they could be famous with other rulers.
So they could get more land.
They liked to sail their big boats.
When Columbus first landed, where did he think he was?
Asia
America
Africa
Scandinavia
Where did Columbus really land?
Australia
An island in Canada
An island in the Caribbean Sea
Africa
His crew was the first to successfully sail around the entire world! But this explorer died in a battle in the Philippine Islands.
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortez
A Portuguese explorer best known for being the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco Da Gama
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
She was the first female astronaut.
Valentina Tereshkova.
Ana Karenina.
Katia Lichova.
Anastasia Romanova-
