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Early America Worksheet and quiz 1
NAME:…………………………………………
Date: …………………………….
Questions:
- ……………………………………………………………..started a navigation school in the mid-1400s.
- In 1488, ………………………………… sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
- Vasco de Gama traveled all the way around the Cape and landed in India in …………………..
- Francisco Pizarro attacked the Inca Empire in………………………………………………….
- ……………………………………………………….approved the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
- …………………………………………………..founded the first French trading post in Quebec in 1609.
- ………………………………………………………searched for “cities of gold” throughout the Southwest but he never found any.
- John Cabot explored the east coast for English settlements in………………………………
- ………………………………………………..invented the mariner’s astrolabe.
- Leif Erikson was the son of the legendary Viking explorer,…………………………………………
Answers:
- Prince Henry of Portugal
- Bartholomew Dias
- 1498
- 1532
- Pope Julius II
- Samuel de Champlain
- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- 1497
- The Portuguese
- Erik the Red