Early Explorers

What is a person who travels looking for new lands and discoveries called?

• astronaut

• explorer

• detective

• doctor

What is the course you take to get somewhere called?

Many explorers in the past tried to find a __________ to Asia.

• motive

• claim

• route

What ocean did European Explorers go across trying to find a water route to Asia?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

Why did early European Explorers want to find a way to go to Asia quicker?

• For spices & herbs

• For gold

• For silk

• All of the above

What Italian explorer was sent by Spain in 1492 to sail to China in search of spices?

• Jean Nicolet

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Louis Jolliet

Who was Christopher Columbus?

• a mapmaker who landed in China

• an explorer who sailed to India

• an explorer who reached the Americas

After Christopher Columbus set up a settlement on the island called Hispaniola, this changed the lives of the group already living there. What was the name of that native group?

• Cherokee

• Iroquois

• Taino

What were the names of Columbus’s ships?

• The Nina, the Pinata, and the Santa Claus

• The Nana, the Peter, and the Marina

• The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

Columbus took four VOYAGES to the New World. What is a VOYAGE?

• a trip

• a ship

• a long time ago

• an ocean

Why did Columbus want to find a new route to China?

• He wanted to learn new languages and about different cultures.

• He wanted to bring gold, spices, and silk back to Spain.

• The old route was too fast.