History
Name
A History Map
Maps can show historical events. The
map on these pages shows the routes that
different European explorers took in the
1400s and early 1500s. This period was
one of the greatest times of exploration
the world has ever known.
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AMERICA
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Tropic of Cancer
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OCEAN
1. Which explorer left from Bristol?
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Where did his explorations take him?
Tropic of Capricorn
2. What color is the route for Christopher Columbus?
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What island did he reach on his voyage?
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3. Which explorer is represented by a green arrow?
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From what European city did he begin his voyage?
4. What two continents did Vasco da Gama sail to?
5. Where was the first place that Ferdinand Magellan stopped?
6. About how many years after Columbus
made his voyages did Magellan set sail?
7. Where did Magellan have to sail to get
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
What body of water is named for this explorer?
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History
Name
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Key
Columbus 1492–93
Cabot 1497
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da Gama 1497–98
Newfoundland
Cabral 1500
Bristol
Magellan 1519–22
EUROPE
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Lisbon
Cadiz
PACIFIC
OCEAN
ASIA
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Hispaniola
Philippines
Calicut
AFRICA
Malindi
SOUTH
AMERICA
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OCEAN
Mozambique
Rio de
Janeiro
AUSTRALIA
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Cape of
Good Hope
Strait of Magellan
Cape Horn
European Explorations, 1492–1522
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WORD SEARCH
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the names of
five European
explorers?
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MAP
READER’S TIP
America was named
for an Italian,
Amerigo Vespucci,
who explored the
New World between
1497 and 1503.
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Answer Key
MAPS
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1. Cabot; North America
2. blue; Hispaniola
3. Cabral; Lisbon
4. Africa; Asia
5. South America
6. about 27
7. around the southern tip of South America;
the Strait of Magellan
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