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Famous Landmarks
Famous Explorers
Christopher Columbus
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100
This instrument is used to find direction.
What is a compass?
100
This is the local name for the island on which Columbus first landed. Columbus called this place San Salvador.
What is Guanahani?
100
These were the first people known to have visited the Americas.
Who are the Vikings?
100
This country was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
What is Italy?
100
There were many changes in technology in Europe that helped set the stage for exploration. Name one of these changes.
What is built faster ships, made a new kind of sail that allowed ships to sail against the wind, better maps, OR made a better compass.
200
This is a person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer?
200
This is the name that Leif Eriksson and the Vikings gave to the first European settlement in the Americas.
What is Vinland, or vineland?
200
He was the Viking leader who led the first Europeans to visit the Americas.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
200
This is the year that Christopher Columbus landed in America.
What is 1492?
200
There were many changes in government in Europe that opened the door for explorations. Name one of these.
What is lands once ruled by warring nobles had become countries ruled by strong monarchs OR they didn't want to spend their time or money on exploration.
300
This is an adventure story that tells about the brave deeds of people long ago.
What is a saga?
300
This body of water was reached by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa and is now one of our five Oceans.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This European whose descriptions of the riches and gold in China made traders want to go to Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
This is what Christopher Columbus did for most of his life.
What is a sailor?
300
Martin Behaims built the first globe. There were some things wrong with it.
What is showed the earth as being smaller than it really is, did not have America on it, did not have Australia or Antarctica on it, OR Africa was too small and the wrong shape.
400
This is another name for kings and queens.
What is a monarch?
400
This body of water was known as the Ocean Sea by explorers in the late 1400's and is now one of our five Oceans.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
This Italian explorer figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia. America was also named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
This country gave Christopher Columbus the money and support to for his voyage of exploration.
What is Spain.
400
He was the ruler of China that Marco Polo claimed to have met.
Who is Kublai Kahn?
500
This line of longitude is marked 0 degrees and runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This city was captured by the Turks, closing off trade routes between europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
500
He was the first person to make a globe, earning $75.00 for building it even though it was not accurate.
Who is Martin Behaim?
500
Christopher Columbus had three ships in his voyage. They were the Nina, the ___________, and the Santa Maria.
What is the Pinta?
500
This European proved that it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?