This explorer found the "New World"
a. Who is Christopher Columbus?
b. Who is Henry Hudson?
c. Who is Leif Ericson?
a. is Christopher Colombus?
100
Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella pay for Columbus's first voyage?
a. trees, water, and gold
b. diamonds, gold, and silver
c. spices, slaves, and gold
c. spices, slaves, and gold
100
This obstacle made it hard for explorers to get to their destinations correctly and in the shortest amount of time.
a. What is bad ships?
b. What is poor maps and navigation tools?
c. What is the world was flat?
b. What is poor maps and navigational tools?
100
Named Florida for the season in addition to exploring.
a. What did Juan Ponce de Leon do?
b. What did Vasco Nunez de Balbo do?
c. What did Christopher Columbus do?
a. What did Juan Ponce de Leon do?
100
Explorers brought diseases to the Native American lands
a. True
b. False
True
200
This explorer came from Spain and traveled to what we now call Florida
a. Who is Juan Cortez?
b. Who is Jacques Cartier?
c. Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
c. Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
200
What did "GOLD" mean to the explorers?
It meant money. They wanted to find riches in the new lands.
200
Many of the explorers suffered from this obstacle during their travels causing a decrease in their population.
a. What is boredom?
b. What is not enough water?
c. What is disease and starvation?
c. What is disease and starvation?
200
What was it called when the explorers claimed land for their country?
a. colonization
b. exploration
c. trading
a. colonization
200
The Northwest Passage is a water route through North America to Asia.
a. True
b. False
True
300
This explorer sailed for the Dutch and discovered the Hudson Bay.
a. Who is Marco Polo?
b. Who is Henry Hudson?
c. Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
b. Who is Henry Hudson?
300
What did explorers plan to do when they arrived to their new lands? (Hint: Glory)
They wanted to claim the land as their own and colonize it.
300
Why did Spanish settlers in North America import enslaved Africans?
a. They needed people to build homes.
b. They needed workers to replace Native Americans who died.
c. They needed more people to fill the towns and help the economy.
b. They needed workers to replace Native Americans who died.
300
This accomplishment made it easier for them to travel to new places in the future?
a. Faster ships
b. Improved maps and navigational tools
c. The world being round
b. Improved maps and navigational tools
300
Fighting in battle resulted in the largest number of deaths among Native Americans.
a. True
b. False
False (It was actually....)
400
This explorer came from France and sailed to Canada looking for the Northwest Passage.
a. Who is John Cabot?
b. Who is Vasco de Gama?
c. Who is Jacques Cartier?
c. Who is Jacques Cartier?
400
What did European explorers want to bring back from Asia?
a. spices and riches
b. spices and slaves
c. coloies and slaves
a. spices and riches
400
The story of Marco Polo's travels caused the kings and queens of Europe to do what?
a. Send explorers to find water routes to Asia
b. Colonize North America
c. Look for the Silk Road
a. Send explorers to find water routes to Asia
400
Colonization is?
a. Exploring trading routes to new lands
b. Looking for riches in an unexplored land
c. Setting up a village or town in a new land
c. Setting up a village or town in a new land
400
The Native Americans were made into slaves by the Spanish colonists.
a. True
b. False
True (They forced Native Americans to work on farms and in mines.)
500
This explorer sailed for a country other than his homeland and was looking for a water route through North America to Asia.
a. Who is Henry Hudson?
b. Who is John Cabot?
c. Who is Christopher Columbus?
b. Who is John Cabot?
500
What were John Cabot and Jacques Cartier looking for in North America?
a. Hudson Bay
b. Florida
c. water routh through North America to Asia
c. water route through North America to Asia
500
Many explorers did not bring enough _____________ on their travels.
a. food for their animals
b. fuel for their boats
c. survival supplies
c. survival supplies
500
Christopher Columbus brought this back to Europe from the Americas.
a. What is corn and measels?
b. What is corn and squash?
c. What is popcorn and gold?
b. What is corn and squash?
500
The trading routes from Europe to Asia were known as the Emerald Road.
a. True
b. False