Names_____________________Date______

1. What job did his father do?_______________________

2. What did Columbus want to do?___________________

3. Why did he want to find a shorter way to the Indies?

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4. What did he think the islands were near?______________

 and_________________

5. What do we call the ocean he sailed?____________

6. What did explorers believe about that ocean?

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7. What were he and his crew first at?________________

8. What sank the Santa Maria?_____________________

9. What did he die from?_________________________

10. Why was he maybe the greatest sailor of his time?

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