Explorers Jeopardy

Vocabulary

100

Stories of the past

history

200

explore

to search for new discoveries (land, riches, science)

300

Spanish word for land

tierra

400

claim

to "say" something belongs to you

500

merchant

someone who BUYS and SELLS goods

Timeline

100

900s

The Vikings

200

1290

Marco Polo

300

1488

Bartholmeu Dias

400

1492

Christopher Columbus

500

1498

Vasco da Gama

Who Am I?

100

The most "daring" sailors

Vikings

200

Portuguese captain who sailed all the way around Africa and found India.

Vasco da Gama

300

Italian merchant who went to Asia mainly by land and returned home around 20 years later.

Marco Polo

400

Wanted to find a way to Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean

Christopher Columbus

500

Portuguese explorer who made it to the southern tip of Africa

Bartholomeu Dias

Columbus

100

The names of Columbus' ships

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

200

The country Columbus was BORN in

Italy

300

The direction Columbus traveled across the Atlantic Ocean

west

400

The name Columbus gave to the Natives of the land

Indians

500

Name 3 reasons why Columbus died an unhappy man

1.

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