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A person who travels looking for new lands and discoveries.
An Explorer
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Who was the first country to send explorers west across the Atlantic Ocean in the early 1490s?
Spain
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What else were the explorers looking for during their travels?
spices, herbs, gold, silk & riches
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By the late 1490s what country was out exploring then?
The English
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The course you take to get somewhere.
A route
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What country was exploring in the early 1500s?
France
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Where was Christopher Columbus trying to get to in the 1492?
China
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Columbus set up a settlement on an island called?
Hispaniola
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The Taino people died of what brought by the Spanairds?
diseases
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North and South America were named after who?
Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer who sailed for where?
Spain
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What river did Jacques Cartier sail in 1535?
St. Lawrence River
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Samuel de Champlain founded what city?
Quebec City
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What did people use to keep their food from spoiling?
spices
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Jean Nicolet did not find the Northwest Passage to India but he did explore what?
Lake Michigan
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In 1682, Robert de La Salle claimed what region for France?
Mississippi
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Who was the first English explorer to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
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Who honored Sir Francis Drake when he finished his trip?
The queen
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After John Cabot's exploration, what country claimed all of North America?
England
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Henry Hudson could not find the Northwest Passage, but he did discover what river in North America
Hudson River
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The Hudson River is located where?
New York
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Robert de La Salle discovered what two areas?
Great Lakes & Mississippi
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A person who travels looking for new lands and discoveries is called?
explorer
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The course you take to get somewhere is?
route
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When is the Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Social Studies quiz?
February 18th
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