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How well do you know your explorers?

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Leif Eriksson   A Viking who found Newfoundland  
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Christopher Columbus   sailed to America in 1492 he created a lasting contact between Europe and America  
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Hernando de Soto   he came to the New World looking for some gold. He found the Mississippi---the Native American tribes did not like him  
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Ferdinand Magellan   He had been the first to undertake the circumnavigation of the world, had carried out his project completely, and had thus achieved the most difficult nautical feat of all the centuries. The voyage proved most fruitful for science.  
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Henry Hudson   An Englishman who searched for the Northwest Passage.  
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John Cabot   He was the first European since the Vikings to explore the mainland of North America and the first to search for the Northwest Passage.  
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Robert LaSalle   Robert and his crew went from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.  
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Which is an example of shipbuilding during the 1400's.   the caravel  
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Technological advancements during the Age of Exploration.   caravel, astrolabe, and magnetic compass  
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What do we call the time period when men were willing to risk their lives for exploration?   Age of exploration  
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What was the motivation for explorers?   God, glory, and gold  
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Why did many Native Americans die during the Columbian Exchange?   diseases  
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