Age of Exploration Practice
Putting events in order
Goal:
Goal:
Imagine you are leaving your home and you have no idea where you are going that day. What are some reasons you might go out exploring? Maybe you would like to make new friends, or maybe you would like to see the ocean for the first time.
You learned about many different explorers in this lesson. But you did not learn about all of them! There are many, many explorers in history. Do you think you can remember the explorers from this lesson?
Click and drag each event and place it in the order it happened in the Age of Exploration. Once you have the events in the correct order, you will get a thumbs up. Go back and look through the timeline again if you need help!
The Age of Exploration begins in the nation of Portugal under the leadership of Henry the Navigator.
Christopher Columbus tries to find a new route to India looking for spices.
Vasco de Gama leads the first expedition that traveled from Europe to India.
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León travels to and names Florida.
Hernando de Soto becomes the first European to cross the Mississippi River.