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History Quiz 2
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History
4th Grade
08/19/2010

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The first European to visit America
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Leif Ericson
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The man that America was named after
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Amerigo Vespucci
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The first man to sail south below the tip of Africa to reach India
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Vasco de Gama
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The man who discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Balboa
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The name originally given to the Pacific Ocean
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The Great South Sea
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The first European to reach what is now the United States
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Juan Ponce de Leon was from this country
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Spain
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A body of land with water on three sides
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peninsula
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The Spanish name for 'flowers'
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Florida
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The man who explored Florida's coast
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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First person to call North America the "New World"
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Amerigo Vespucci
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