16 questions
What did the Vikings call America?
Vineland
Indies
Where in America did the Chinese explorers possibly visit?
North
East Coast
What were the two main trade routes between Asia and Europe?
The Silk Road
The Indian Ocean
Ferdinand
What country led the way in exploration of new trade routes to Asia?
Portuguese
Christopher Columbus
Where was Christopher Columbus from?
Ferdinand
Republic of Genoa (Italy)
China
America
What did Columbus dream of finding?
gold
Pearls
New routes to China and Japan.
His brother.
What country rejected Columbus’s idea and which country accepted his idea?
Rejected: Spanish King and Queen
Accepted: king of Portugal
Rejected: no one
Accepted: Spanish King and Queen and king of Portugal
Rejected: king of Portugal and Spanish King and Queen
Accepted: no one
Rejected: king of Portugal
Accepted: Spanish King and Queen
Which explorer rounded the southern tip of Africa but turned around and went home?
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomew Diaz
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who built a school for Navigators
Vasco da Diaz
Bartolomew Diaz
Prince Henry
Name two explorers that may have made it to America before Columbus.
Ditrik Pining and the kings of Portugal.
Bartolomew Diaz and Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci and Vasco da Gama
Which explorer rounded Africa and discovered a new route to India?
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomew Diaz
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco da Gama
America was named after whom?
Prince Henry
Vasco da Gama
Amerigo Vespucci
Bartolomew Diaz
What did Columbus believe about the Earth that allowed him to believe that China and Japan were not very far away from Europe?
Bigger
Flatter
Smaller
What Caribbean island did Columbus discover first?
Islands by Hawaii
Islands by the Bahamas
Islands by Florida
Columbus became governor of Jamaica?
False
True
Why did Columbus call the Natives “Indians”?
Indians
Portuguese
Indies