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Explorers
100

Italian sailor who discovered America in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

Name given to America

What is the New World?

100

This would become the most valuable river in the United States

What is the Mississippi River?

100

The coldest ocean

What is the Arctic Ocean?

100

He discovered the Grand Canyon

Who is Francisco de Coronado

200

Italian Merchant who visited China and described its riches to Europe

Who is Marco Polo?


200

Name given to Europe after North America was discovered

What is the Old World?

200

The first European settlement in North America

What is St. Augustine?

200

The largest continent

What is Asia?

200

He discovered the Mississippi River

Who is Hernando de Soto?

300

King and Queen of Spain who financed Columbus' voyage

Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?

300

The Indians said one can find the Fountain of Youth here

What is Florida?

300

Francisco de Coronado wanted to find this city of gold

What is the Seven Cities of Cibola?

300

The warmest ocean

What is the Indian Ocean?

300

An English captain who raided the Spanish boats

Who is Sir Francis Drake? (Drake the Dragon)

400

The name Columbus gave to the people of the New World because he thought he was in India

Who are the Indians?

400

The city of clay lies in this land

What is the Grand Canyon?

400

The first successful settlement in the New World

What is Quebec?

400

The most heavily traveled ocean

What is the Atlantic Ocean?


400

A French explorer who landed in Canada and traded with the Indians

Who is Samuel de Champlain?

500

They are the sea-going Scandinavian people

Who are the Vikings?

500

The name France gave to Canada

What is New France?

500

The name of the Indians in Mexico and their leader 

What is the Aztecs and Montezuma?

500

The largest ocean

What is the Pacific Ocean?

500

A Frenchman who wanted to find a waterway through North America

Who is Jacques Cartier?

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