Explorers of the Ice Age

Bering Questions What Russian Czar commissioned the voyage of Vitus Bering? In what year was Bering’s first expidition? What area of land was Bering tasked with exploring? Bering was then tasked with seeing if Russia was connected with what continent? Where was Vitus Bering born? During what years was Peter the Great czar of Russia? Peter moves the capital of Russia to what city after travelling Europe? What did he learn on his travels to Europe? In what year does Russian set up a trading post in Alaska? What were the names of Bering’s ship to sail to North America? What prevented Bering from being certain that Asia and North America were not joined? What was the goal of the Great Northern Expidition? How does Bering die? By exploring Siberia, what products from there were able to be sold in Western Russia and Europe?

Heyerdahl Questions Where was Thor Heyerdahl from? Where did he live for a year to become interested in Polynesia? What was the accepted theory about how Polynesia was populated? What did Heyerdahl seek to prove? In what year was the journey? What was the name of Heyedahl’s raft? What was the Kon-Tiki made of? How long was the journey and how many miles did it travel? From where did he start? Where did the voyage end? What plant that is eaten in both South America and Polynesia suggests that the people may have migrated?