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So Isabella funded ___, To sail around the globe, a journey that was wondrous. 1492 he sailed the ocean blue
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Henry Hudson
d) Vasco De Gama

A Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to India by going around Africa between 1497-1498.
a) Vasco Da Gama
b) Prince Henry
c) Christopher Columbus
d) Ferdinand Megallan

Although my compass was broken, I was able to find my way across the ocean by using a sextant and bright stars for
a) celestial navigation
b) scurvy
c) astrolabe
d) circumnavigation

a Portuguese explorer whose voyage to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522 brought about the first circumnavigation of the globe.
a) Ferdinand Magellan
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Robert De La Salle
d) Jacques Cartier

The next territory humans have to ___ is outer space, which is why it's sometimes called the final frontier.
a) explore
b) circumnavigate
c) trade route
d) treaty

Nicknamed the Navigator, ___ financed many Portuguese explorations of Africa’s west coast during in the 15th century.
a) Prince Henry
b) Vasco Da Gama
c) Henry Hudson
d) John Cabot

The sailors followed ___ across the Indian Ocean that had been established hundreds of years before by spice merchants.
a) trade routes
b) circumnavigation
c) scurvies
d) treaties

a sometimes fatal disease caused by not having enough vitamin C in the diet.
a) scurvy
b) celestial navigation
c) a cold
d) treaty

For a long time, many people said that ___ “discovered” America when he sailed there in 1492, but now we say that he landed on it because many native people were already living there when he arrived.
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Prince Henry
c) Vasco Da Gama
d) Ferdinand Megellan

This explorer went to China with his father and brother to China. He stayed for 24 years and then came back home to Italy. He told stories of what he saw. Other people wanted to go there. Who was he?
a) Marco Polo
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Henry Hudson
d) Samuel De Champlain

What are three things sought after when they explored during the Age of Exploration
a) gold, God, and Glory
b) gold, greed, glory
c) God, greed, and glory
d) greed, gold, God

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