Explorers
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Places
People
Miscellaneous
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This explorer was an Italian sailor who discovered America in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The largest bodies of water.
What are oceans?
100
The island in the West Indies where Columbus first landed.
What is San Salvador?
100
An explorer who claimed North America for England?
Who is John Cabot?
100
The three ships Columbus used on his first Voyage.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
200
This Italian explorer visited China and described its riches to Europe.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
A large mass of land.
What is a continent?
200
Where Ponce de Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth.
What is Florida?
200
The name Columbus gave to the people of the New World because he thought he was in India?
What is Indians?
200
The ship of Columbus's that sank.
What is the Santa Maria?
300
These people found North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
300
A name given to America from Europeans.
What is the New World?
300
Where Ponce de Leon died.
What is Cuba
300
This explorer is from France.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
Vasco de Gama sailed around this continent.
What is Africa?
400
This is who America is named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
The study of the surface of the earth.
What is geography?
400
Where are the Vikings from?
What is Scandinavia?
400
The first Viking to visit America?
Who is Leif Erickson?
400
The Vikings' name for America.
What is Vinland?
500
This Spanish explorer claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain.
Who is Vasco de Balboa?
500
The name given to Europe after America was discovered.
What is the Old World?
500
Where was Vasco de Gama from?
What is Portugal?
500
The people who gave Columbus money.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the king and queen of Spain?
500
The number of journeys that Columbus made.
What is four?
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