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S.S. - Explorers
Question | Answer |
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___________ _______ founded Lima, Peru. | Francisco Pizarro |
Indonesia was know as the __________ _________ during the Age of Exploration. | Spice Islands |
_________ _________ sailed to Newfoundland. | John Cabot |
All the land that touched the Mississippi river as claimed for France by ____________ ___ ____ _________. | Robert de La Salle |
____________ ________ is believed to be the first European in Texas. | Alonso Alvarez de Pineda |
Tobacco was introduced as a cash crop by ________ ________. | John Rolfe |
The island of Manhattan (now New York City) was purchased for about $24 from Native Americans by __________ __________ a Dutch Explorer. | Peter Minuit |
The Spanish Explorer ______ _______ __ ______ was famous for searching for the "fountain of youth". | Juan Ponce de Leon |
____________ ______ was the leader of the Roanoke people who disappeared. | John White |
The Spanish explorer that was the first European to explore South East America? | Hernando de Soto |
The _________ River in New York, is named after the explorer for the Dutch ________ __________. | Hudson Henry Hudson |
___________ ________ forced everyone to work and who negotiated which Indians,and guaranteed Jamestown's initial survival. | John Smith |
The __________ ________ was a waterway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, making it faster for Europeans to get the Indies, rather than sailing around Africa first. | Northwest Passage |
The most prized spices to the Europeans were _________,_________, ________, and __________. | cinnamon cloves black pepper ginger |
________ ______ was popularly known as "sea dog". | John Hawkins |
The oldest European Settlement in Puerto Rico was established by _______ _________. | Juan Ponce de Leon |
__________ ________ was the first European to sail around the world. He was Portuguese but sailed for Spain. | Ferdinand Magellan |