Explorers

Christopher Columbus
1. What seaport what columbus born in.
Answer:In the Italian Seaport.

2.What was he asking kings and queens of europe for?
Answer:He asked for help and money.

3.Who were the king and queen that help pay for Columbus's trip?
Answer:It was king and queen Ferdinad and Isabelle.

4.Why do you think Spain was the country that help pay Columbus's trip.
Answer:Because he was a experienced sailor.

Prince Henry
1.How many voyages of discovery did Prince Henry sail on?
Answer:He sailed on 0 voyages of discovery.

2.What did Prince Henry establish to help voyages.
Answer:He made a school.

3.What did they study at the school.
Answer:They studied navigation,mapmaking,shipbulding.

4.Explain one way that Prince Henry helped future explorers.
Answer:For them to better guide there ships.

Giovanni Da Verranzo
1.What country was Verranzo from?
Answer:He was from Florence.

2.What did the king of france ask of Verranzo.
Answer:He asked him to find another way to china.

3.What did Verranzo find instead of China.
Answer:He found North Carolina.

4.Why did the King ask Verranzo to go to China?
Answer:To find a northwestern sea route.

John Cabot
1.What country was John Cabot from.
Answer:He was from England.

2.How did Cabot think he could get to Asia.
Answer:He thought he could get there by sailing west.

3.Who did the Pope give control of the New Lands to?
Answer:He gave it to Spain.

4.Why was a Northwest Passage important for China?
Answer:To the Indies.