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Grade 5 Exploration
This Portuguese explorer sailed south around the tip of Africa all the way up to India.
  1. Columbus
  2. Cortez
  3. Magellan
  4. daGama
Grade 5 Exploration
The Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s
  1. conquistador
  2. colonist
Grade 5 Exploration
          In 1492          , Columbus made the first of        four       trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named            the Nina           ,             the Pinta            , and                   the Santa Maria                  .
Grade 5 Exploration
The                 was a navigational tool that allowed early sailors to navigate at night.
  1. astrolabe
  2. telescope
  3. compass
  4. globe
Grade 5 Exploration
During the Colombian Exchange, one of the things that was introduced to the New World that was NOT introduced to the Old world was...
  1. soccer
  2. liquor
  3. disease
  4. water
Grade 5 Exploration
                   was a Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail south around the tip of Africa and up to India.
  1. Amerigo Vespucci
  2. Marco Polo
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. Vasco DaGama
Grade 5 Exploration
What are the three goals of European Exploration? (hint:the three Gs)
Grade 5 Exploration
The New World was named for this explorer by a German mapmaker when he made a world map.
  1. Vespucci
  2. Columbus
  3. Prince Henry
  4. daGama
Grade 5 Exploration
What was the Northeast Passage?
Grade 5 Exploration
Choose the reasons Sir Francis Drake was important to England's supremacy of the seas.
  1. From 1577 to 1580, Drake raided Spanish galleons and stormed settlements along the west coast of South America
  2. He formed the first English settlement in the New World
  3. He discovered the Northwest Passage
  4. While battling the Spanish Armada, he captured the Biscayan squadron's flagship, El Rosario, and its captain, Admiral Pedro de Valdes
  5. He organized the fire ships attack strategy that defeated the Spanish Armada
  6. He was an experienced sailor that had circumnavigated the globe.
Grade 5 Exploration
             Marco Polo              was responsible for the excitement about finding trade routes for the Silk Road when a book about his explorations was published.
Grade 5 Exploration
What are two domesticated animals the Europeans introduced to the Western Hemisphere?
Grade 5 Exploration
Sir Walter Raleigh attended                         as a young man but left to fight with the Huguenots in France.
  1. University of Cambridge
  2. Oxford University
  3. the Church of England
  4. the Catholic Church
Grade 5 Exploration
Nearly 300 million Native Americans on Hispaniola died within 50 years of Christopher Columbus's landing because of
  1. exposure to heat
  2. disease
  3. starvation
  4. overcrowded conditions
Grade 5 Exploration
Conquistador is a Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Exploration
Cortez is famous for circumnavigating the globe, even though he died on the way home.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Exploration
Henry Hudson was looking for a Northwest Passage to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to go south around South America.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Exploration
In talking about the Colombian Exchange, what is the one thing that was introduced to the New world that was NOT introduced to the Old World?
Grade 5 Exploration
Sir Francis Drake was the explorer for England who was the first to discover the rich fishing banks off the coast of Newfoundland.
  1. True
  2. False
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