Age of Encounters & Exploration Quick Check

Which of the following was NOT a reason for European exploration?

• find gold

• more land

• find jobs

• spread Christianity

The routes shown on the map were taken by _______________.

• Christopher Columbus

• the Vikings

• Zheng He

• Ferdinand Magellan

North and South America were named after ___________________.

Match the explorers with their accomplishments.

• Christopher Columbus

• Searched for a mythical "Fountain of Youth"

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Landed in the Caribbean islands in 1492

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• First European to explore and describe the Great Lakes

• Jacques Cartier

• Named and claimed Canada for France

• Samuel de Champlain

• 1st European to reach the Pacific through the New World

​ (a)   was the first English explorer to sail around the world.​

• Francis Drake
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Henry Hudson