Multiple Choice
Short Answer
100

Who became the first European to travel the length of Asia? 

a. Leif Ericson 

b. Johann Gutenberg 

c. Marco Polo 

d. Henry the Navigator 

Marco Polo 

100

What revived interest in trade with the East? 

crusades 

200

Who is credited with realizing that Columbus had explored a new continent?  

a. Hernando Cortes 

b. Amerigo Vespucci 

c. Hernando de Soto 

d. Juan Cabrillo 

Amerigo Vespucci 

200

Who protested the false doctrines of the Roman church by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany?  

Martin Luther 

300

Who conquered the Aztecs?  

a. Hernando Cortes 

b. Amerigo Vespucci 

c. Hernando de Soto 

d. Juan Cabrillo 

Hernando Cortes 

300

What nation sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World?  

Spain 

400

Who established the first permanent French settlement in the New World at Quebec? 

a. Jacques Cartier 

b. Jacques Marquette 

c. Samuel de Champlain 

d. Robert Cavelier de La Salle 

Samuel de Champlain 

400

Where was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?  

St. Augustine 

500

Who was part of an expedition that explored the Mississippi River?  

a. Jacques Cartier 

b. Jacques Marquette 

c. Samuel de Champlain 

d. Robert Cavelier de La Salle 

Jacques Marquette 

500

Who led the expedition that discovered the Grand Canyon?  

Francisco Coronado 

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