Cherry Hill Middle School

1. Our explorer was poor as a child and was forced to guard pigs to earn food.

2. Our explorer ran away from home at the age of 14 to join the King's army.

3. Our explorer fought a famous battle at Cajamarca.

4. Our explorer was born in Trujillo.

5. Our explorer was chief lieutenant to Balboa.

6. King Charles I appointed our explorer Govenor of Peru.

7. Our explorer's cousin was Hernando Cortez.

8. Our explorere searched for the Land of Gold.

9. Our explorer conquered the Incas.

Cite Internationale Stendhal

1-What a high jump I made!

2-Virginia is an old friend of mine.

3-It sent shivers down my spine.

4-A clogged chimney nearly cost me my life.

5-My wife left her mark on the land.

6-I was on the landing at night.

7-I composed little America alone.

8-I have flown top and bottom.

9-Penguins are some of my best friends.

Kristvallabrunnsschool

1. He was a seafarer.

2. He spent all his life finding new seaways.

3. He never went himself. He sent others.

4. His discoveries made it easier to find the seaway to India.

5. One of his ships suceeded to get round Cap Bojador without damages.

6. He was a prince from Portugal.

7. He was born 1394

8. An African chief gave one of his men 5 of his slaves.

9. He explored Africa's west coast.

Lewis & Clark Elementary School

1. Ship became icebound

2. Crew ate polar bear and fox

3. Led 3 expeditions in the 1590s

4. Defeated by ice

5. Built a house out of timbers from his ship

6. Navigator

7. He was born 1394

8. An African chief gave one of his men 5 of his slaves.

9. He explored Africa's west coast.

Lone Rock School

1. This man was a British explorer.

2. He fought for the Confederate and the Union Army during the Civil War.

3. As a newspaper reporter he covered the Indian Wars in the American West.

4. He sailed as a cabin boy to New Orleans.

5. This person was hired to find someone in the 1800's.

6. He died in 9198. (year is scrambled)

7. He explored a continent that starts with an A.

8. He explored a river that has a movie named after it.

9. His search for the missing person ended Nov. 10th, 1871.

Maine West

1. Sailed in the name of England and Spain.

2. Was not born in either country (England or Spain.)

3. Was a famed cartographer.

4. Was Banished to Africa by his king.

5. Stopped on the shores of Brazil.

6. Served King Henry VIII, King Ferdinand and King Charles.

7. Held the post of Pilot-Major.

8. Was founder and head of the Muscovy Company of Merchant Adventurers.

9. Claimed to have explored North America, especially Hudson Bay and Labrador.

Maywood Center

1) He traveled 42,000 miles.

2) He recieved a wound that made him lame for life.

3) He died during a fight between two Filipino groups.

4) He became one of the best navigators of all time.

5) He was born in 1480 and died in 1521

6) He sailed for King Charles the V, king of Spain.

7) He sailed on the Vittoria

8) He named the Cape of Eleven Thousand Virgins.

9) This man has a passage named after him

Narragansett Elementary School

1.He explored in the 17th century.

2.He rode on a "Tiger".

3.He discovered a river.

4.He took part in explorations with another explorer.

5.There is a landform named after him.

6.He made the first detailed map of the northeastern part of a country

7.He named "Red Island

8.Some people believed he named one of the fifty states.

9.He also explored an island in the Empire state.

Noorman Family Home School

1. Our explorer was an American born in Hawaii.

2. He became a history teacher at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and John Hopkins Universities.

3. He was a republican senator from an eastern state in the 1950's.

4. Our explorer made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of this century.

5.The area he was exploring had both dense tropical jungle and snow capped mountains and glaciers.

6. His discovery was made in the southern hemisphere.

7. He found very large cut stones fitted together without mortar.

8. He was inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem "The Explorer" and quoted from it in the National Geographic Article that he wrote about his discovery.

9. There were natives farming on the terraces near the city he discovered.

Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School

1.He received Letters Patent from King Henry VII.

2.He was a merchant before turning explorer.

3.He set sail for his first voyage on May 2nd.

4.He was a Venetian citizen.

5.He was a man of the Renaissance.

6.He was lost at sea.

7. He sailed for England.

8. He brought his sons along on both of his voyages.

9. He sailed 5 years after Columbus.

Tanja Public School

1. He was described as " a direct, headstrong and rather insensitive man. "

2. He served with the Britsh Army in Crimea and India.

3.He went on three expeditons to one of the largest continents. It hads snow capped mountains and deserts. He started exploring on the east coast.

4. He quarrelled with one partner. This partner was famous for his mastery of 25 languages. The partner was also famous as the first European to successfully visit and sketch the holy and forbidden city of Mecca.His partner did this through disguise and his command of the Arabic language.

5. The explorer's major discovery was not accepted by everyone at the time and was the subject of a lot of debate. This area was difficult to explore because so many Europeans died through attacks by natives and sickness. However, shortly after his death, his thoughts were proved to be correct by other explorers.

6. He gave his name to several species of animals that he "discovered" including a type of gazelle. This gazelle is famous for making a snorting sound when its frightened. It makes the sound by inflating the skin on top of its muzzle. There maybe only one thousand of this type of gazelle left in the wild but it's hard to know accurately because it lives in war zones.

7. He met Samuel Baker and his wife while exploring.

8. He died in a shooting accident shortly before debating with his former partner (about the source of the Nile) at a meeting that was to take place at the British Association back in England.

9. He was attacked by Somali tribesman and stabbed in the legs and arms.He "discovered" Africa's largest lake. He stated that this lake was the source of the Nile, the world's longest river.

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