Gr. 5 Explorers Quizz
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- The country where Columbus was born.
- Italy
- The name for the 7 Cities of Gold in the American Southwest
- Cibola
- Explorer who crossed Panama and found the Pacific Ocean
- Balboa
- Led the expedition that eventually sailed around the world.
- Magellan
- Italian who sailed for England, found the eastern edge of Canada
- John Cabot
- Frenchman who first found the St. Lawrence River
- Cartier
- The number of voyages Columbus made to the New World.
- four
- Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
- De Soto
- The ocean between Europe and the New World.
- Atlantic Ocean
- The ocean that Columbus never knew about
- Pacific Ocean
- The location where Magellan lost his life
- Philippines
- The place that Columbus was trying to sail to when he bumped into the New World
- Spice Islands, or Asia, or China, or the Orient, or India
- The first European country to establish an all water trade route with Asia
- Portugal
- The series of religious wars that caused Europeans to learn about the riches of the East
- Crusades
- The French explorer who explored the Mississippi River
- La Salle or Marquette or Joliet
- Name 2 reasons that European explorers traveled to the New World
- to find riches, to find a water route to Asia,
- What "passage" did the explorers continue to search for, even though it did not really exist?
- Northwest Passage
- An explorer who worked for England and Holland....named a bay after himself
- Henry Hudson
- The gulf located south of the United States
- Gulf of Mexico
- The number of years it took for a Spanish crew to travel around the world
- 3 years
- In what century did most of the Spanish explorers travel to the New World
- 16th century
- The continent that the Portuguese sailed around to get to India
- Africa
- The direction Balboa had to travel to get from Spain to the New World
- West or southwest
- Most of the French explorers came to North or South America
- North America
- Of these, which did the Europeans bring to the New World....corn, horses, pumpkins, or buffaloes
- horses
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas
- Pizarro
- Country, today, where the Inca lived
- Peru
- Italian explorer who traveled in Asia, wrote a book about his travels
- Polo
- Spanish explorer who took gold from the Aztecs
- Cortes
- Country, today, where the Aztecs lived
- Mexico
- He discovered Brazil
- Cabral
- A large area of land or group of people ruled by a powerful ruler
- empire
- A trade route between Asia and some Arabic cities
- Silk Road