Patriotic Places
The name that the Vikings gave the New World.
What is Vinland?
The explorer is that is known for finding the New World.
Who is Columbus?
The day Columbus landed on San Salvador.
What is October 12, 1492?
The name "America" first stood for.
What is South America?
The name the German mapmaker used to name the New World.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This is the name of the first European (Spanish) settlement.
What is Saint Augustine?
Scandinavians who visited the New World around the year 1000.
Who are the Vikings?
The approximate year that Leif Erickson and the Vikings landed in America.
What is 1000 AD?
The seven continents and four oceans.
What is Europe, Asia, Antarctica, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa? What is Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic?
He was the great leader of the Aztecs.
Who is Montezuma?
The man who found and explored the Mississippi River.
Who is DeSoto?
The year John Cabot landed in what is now America and claimed it for England.
What is 1497?
He is the most famous "sea dog" or pirate.
Who is Drake the Dragon?
Columbus made this many voyages to what is called the New World.
Who made four voyages to the New World?
The explorer who claimed North America for England.
Who is John Cabot?
The man who arrived in Canada, claimed it for France, and then founded the settlement of Quebec.
Who is Champlain?
The year is 1519.
What is the year Cortez began conquering the Aztecs?
The three countries who claimed land in the New World.
What is England, Spain, and France?
The man looking for the fountain of youth that explorered Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
The explorer who explored Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and found the Grand Canyon.
Who is Coronado?
The greedy Spainiard who conquered Mexico and the Aztecs.
Who is Cortez?
The year is 1608.
What is the date Champlain started the settlement of Quebec?
Cartier's accomplishments for France.
Who started a fur trade and friendship with the Indians, and he claimed land for France?
What Columbus was really looking for.
What is a short sea route to Asia (India)?