Great Explorers: Capes and Routes
From Columbus to Magellan, trace the sea routes and the capes that reshaped the world
What this quiz asks
- 1Which navigator, sailing for Spain, reached the Americas in 1492?
- 2Who reached India by sea in 1498 by sailing around Africa?
- 3Which cape in southern Africa was first named the "Cape of Storms"?
- 4Which navigator launched the 1519 expedition that would first sail around the world?
- 5The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) split the newly found lands between which powers?
- 6Which strait at the southern tip of the Americas is named after its 1520 discoverer?
- 7Which Florentine navigator gave his first name to the American continent?
- 8Which explorer, commissioned by Francis I, sailed up the St. Lawrence in the 1530s?
- 9Which spice, found almost nowhere else, grew on the Banda Islands and stirred fierce rivalry?
- 10Which instrument measured a star's altitude to estimate latitude at sea?
