Early Exploration

The rhyme that starts, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”, shows __________________________

• how important the early explorers are in the American history.

• how nations have grown and changed.

• that Columbus colored the ocean blue.

With every expedition that set sail, the world seemed to get a little bit smaller.

• true

• false

Each early explorer had a goal and a destination in mind and set off over uncharted waters to reach it.

• true

• false

Explorers' journeys didn't shape the world, and their legacy can't still be seen and heard today.

• true

• false

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain sponsored ______________ journey.

• Cabot's

• Columbus’s

• Amerigo's

In the Treaty of Tordesillas, all new lands east of the line were Portugal’s. All new lands west of it were Spain’s.

• true

• false

_____________________ was a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain.

• King Ferdinand

• Christopher Columbus

• Queen Isabella

John Cabot thought that he had reached China when he landed in what is now ______________

• Mexico

• Canada

• the United States

John Cabot claimed the region he had discovered for England.

• true

• false

In 1507, a mapmaker proposed that the New World be named America in honor of Amerigo the Discoverer.

• true

• false