It is said that Christopher Columbus challenged the worldwide belief that the earth was flat, discovered America, has a country named after him, and was the first European to set foot in what is now the continental United States. Which "fact" is actually true?
Columbus has a country named after him.
This person was probably the first European to step foot in what is now Pennsylvania by sailing up the Susquehanna in search of food.
John Smith
A person who travels in search of something.
An explorer.
This was the first country to explore what is now Pennsylvania.
The Netherlands
The Swedish explorers departed from this city in Sweden, which is Sweden's second largest city, major port, and home to a bad aquarium.
Gothenburg
Who actually discovered America?
The Natives
This explorer sailed up the Delaware Bay after being hired by the Dutch. His fate was rather tragic.
Henry Hudson
A small community of people living in a new place.
A settlement.
This was the first country to colonize Pennsylvania.
Sweden
A governor of New Sweden who expanded the colony to what is now Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Johan Printz
Most educated people since Ancient Greece believed the earth was this shape.
Round
In 1623, the Dutch set up a trading post on this river.
The Schuylkill
A settlement ruled by a distant country.
Colony
This country explored Central and South America and settled there.
Spain
The first Swedish settles landed here, which is now Wilmington, Delaware.
Fort Christina
Where did Columbus actually land?
The Bahamas
This man was a Dutch leader in the New World.
Peter Stuyvesant
This person is in charge of a colony.
Governor
This country had settlements in what is now Virginia, and New England.
England
Colonists in New Sweden made a living by selling these.
Beaver skins
This country was named after Columbus.
Colombia
This was Columbus' true achievement.
Others were inspired to explore America.
Schuylkill means this in Dutch.
Hidden creek.
This country settled Brazil, after the pope solved a disagreement between this country and Spain.
Portugal
New Sweden failed to grow because most of the colonists were this.
Men