Did Columbus really Discover America?
The Native Americans first came to America from a land bridge connecting North America with
What is Asia?
Columbus "discovered" the New World in?
What is 1492?
Who was the first person to discover Florida?
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
What river was discovered by Jacques Cartier?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
Which explorer claimed Newfoundland and the east coast of North American for England?
Who is John Cabot?
What is the name of the Viking who traveled from Iceland then to Newfoundland in Canada?
Who is Leif Ericson?
Columbus read books written by this person. This made Coumbus want to travel to the Indies.
Who is Marco Polo?
Which explorer set out to find cities of gold but found the Pueblo and Plains Indians instead?
Who is Francisco Coronado?
Who is known as the "Father of New France"?
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Who paid for the island of Manhattan to start a Dutch trading colony?
Who is Peter Minuit?
What is the name of the person who a German mapmaker named the New World after?
Who is Americgo Vespucci?
What was the occupation of the father of Columbus?
What is a weaver?
What great river was first crossed by Hernando DeSoto and his men?
What is the Mississippi River?
Did French explorers work with or against most native tribes?
What is the worked with the tribes?
What country did Henry Hudson claim the Hudson River for?
What is the Netherlands?
What was the name of the tribe that met Columbus?
Who are the Taino?
What is the Sargasso Sea, a hurricane, and a mutiny?
What type of training did most of the Spanish explorers have?
What is military training?
This explorer was an Italian sailor sent by the French king who came to the New World in looking for the Northwest Passage.
Who is Giovanni da Verranzano?
What were Henry Hudson and John Cabot searching for?
What is the Northwest Passage to Asia?
Who was the first European to discover America?
Who is Bjarni Herjolfsson?
What did his discovery lead to in the New World? (An Era of....)
What is an Era of Exploration, Era of Conquest, Era of Colonization, Era of Genocide?
What was the name of the King of Spain who started the Era of Exploration?
Who was King Ferdinand?
Who named all the land drained by the Mississippi River for a French king? He also discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682.
Who is Robert LaSalle?
Where was John Cabot from?
What is Italy?