Where first Europeans who came to America came from.
What is Vinland?
100
Three things that European merchants wanted to obtain from Asia.
What is perfume, spices and silk.
100
Leif Erikson left Greenland to find what?
What is wood?
100
Where both Dias and da Gama sailed around.
What is the tip of Africa?
200
A place where boats would load and unload their cargo.
What is port?
200
Where the Vikings, like Eric the Red and Leif Erikson came from.
Where is Norway?
200
Why did Portugal and Spain look for an all-water route to the Indies?
a. Merchants in the Indies would not trade with Arabs.
b. The Chinese would not sell goods to Europeans.
c. The Chinese wrote books about trading.
d. The Italians controlled trade across the Mediterranean Sea.
What is d.?
200
Where Marco Polo traveled to.
What is China?
200
Why the King and Queen of Spain refused to help Columbus.
What is the queen's advisors said Columbus's plan would not work?
300
Experienced sailors who came from Norway.
Who are the Vikings?
300
What Leif Erikson named his first found land.
What is Newfoundland?
300
To reach Asia the direction Columbus planned to sail.
What is West?
300
What Prince Henry did to encourage exploration.
What is start a school for sea captians?
300
What Columbus called the Native Americans.
What is Indians?
400
A person who buys and sells goods.
What is a merchant?
400
What Columbus named the first island that he landed on.
What is San Salvador?
400
Name three countries that make up Asia.
Answers will vary.
400
What Vasco da Gama found.
What is an all water route to Asia?
400
Why John Cabot's voyage was important to England wass because he found...
What is the Grand Banks, a rich fishing area?
500
A narrow strip of land between two bodies of water.
What is an Isthmus?
500
The New World was named in honor of who?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
Explorers desperately searched for a __________________ to take them to Asia.
What is Northwest Passage?
500
What Magellan's crew was first to do.
What is sail around the world?
500
For which country did Cartier claim as a part of North America?