The Explorers Game
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What country first sent an explorer westward? | Spain
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| What country claimed the land along the east coast of the present-day United States? | England
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| What does latitude measure? | The distances north or south of the equator
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| What term means the renewal of learning and culture in Western Europe? | Renaissance
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| What European country colonized Central America and much of South America? | Spain
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| In what period of time did European explorers sail to North and South America? | Age of Exploration
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| What invention helped the Europeans establish colonial empires in the New World? | guns, new weapons using gunpowder
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| What does longitude measure? | Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
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| Where was gunpowder invented? | China
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| When was gunpowder invented? | In the 1200s
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| What invention made it possible to arrange individual letters and print pages inexpensibly and quickly? | Movable type
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| What navigation instrument was used to determine a ship's position at sea? | astrolab
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| What European country first colonized the Mississippi River Valley? | France
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| What European was credited with inventing the printing press with movable type? | Johannes Gutenberg
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| When did the Age of Exploration begin? | In the 1400s
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| What explorer claimed Brazil for Portugal? | Pedro Cabral
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| What group helped to make more accurate maps? | explorers
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| What were some things which led to the Age of Discovery? | compass, rudder, more accurate maps, movable type printing press, gunpowder, astrolabe
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| For whom is America named? | Amerigo Vespucci
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| What explorer led to the establishment of Spanish colonies in the West Indies? | Christopher Columbus
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| Which European country was first in its exploration of North America---France or England? | England with John Cabot in 1497
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| What group first came to North America about 1000? | Vikings
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| By the year 1550, what country had the largest empire in the New World? | Spain
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