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WorksheetsEuropean Explorers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2hrs 16mins
Which of these men was NOT an explorer?
John Cabot
Juan Ponce De Leon
Henry Hudson
Hernan Colorado
This explorer's voyage was funded by merchants and he voyaged to present-day Canada
John Cabot
Christopher Colombus
Juan Ponce De Leon
Robert de La Salle
The European Explorers in the 1400 and 1500s were looking for all of the following EXCEPT
gold
Egyptian pyramids
India
Land for their country
Which route did Franciso Vasquez de Coronado follow?
Up the Hudson River
Cuba to Mexico City
Mexico to the American Southwest including New Mexico and Kansas
Cuba to Florida
Besides land, what was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado looking for
Glory and horses
Wealth and the Fountain of Youth
The Aztec capital and a cure to diseases
Glory and wealth
What was Ponce De Leon looking for?
The Seven Cities of Gold
Trees with golden bells
Magic traders to trade fur for glass beads
The Fountain of Youth
The European Explorers did all of the following EXCEPT
Spread disease and claim land for their country
Spread their religions and take Native Americans as slaves
Claimed Aztec land and spread smallpox
Found a quick way to Asia and discovered the Seven cities of Gold
Which explorer had a river and a bay named after him, but was still left out in a boat with his son and was never seen again?
Cabot
Coronado
Hudson
Columbus
Who is credited with claiming the Mississippi Valley Region?
Robert de La Salle
Christopher Colombus
Henry Hudson
Ponce de Leon
What was Jacques Cartier looking for
The Northwest Passage to China
A way to get to Antarctia more quickly
Someone to teach him the language of the Native Americans
New plants and medicines to cure diseases
