Explorers
This explorer discovered the Americas for Spain in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This missionary priest and traveled to North America to spread the Gospel. While there, he was martyred with two other missionaries in New York state.
Who is Isaac Jogues?
The names of the two continents in the Western Hemisphere.
What are North America and Sounth America?
St. Rose of Lima is the first saint from this continent who lived in this country.
What is Peru?
St. Isaac Jogues was a missionary priest from this country.
What is France?
This Spanish explorer discovered Florida and explored the Caribbean & American Southwest, searching for the mythical Fountain of Youth.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
Cartier claimed this land for France and named it from the Iroquoian word kanata for village or settlement.
What is Canada?
The land that bridges North and South America; it is not itself a separate continent, but a part of North America.
What is Central America?
He is another saint from Lima, Peru.
Who is Saint Martin de Porres?
St. Peter Claver was a member of this religious order.
What is the Jesuit order?
This Spanish explorer led conquest of the Inca Empire and discovered Lima, Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Saint Kateri is sometimes called the “Lily of” this place.
What is the Mohawks?
Name 3 countries in Central America.
What is (any of these 3) Guatamala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama?
Saint Peter Claver is known as the “Apostle of these people” whom he helped when they arrived in Colombia.
What are slaves?
Saint Martin de Porres is famous for being kind even to these small animals.
What are mice?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico and established first Spanish settlement in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This river was explored by Fr. Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet.
What is the Mississippi River?
This Spanish explorer explored the American Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon.
Francisco Coronado
Saint Rose of Lima's real first name was this flower name.
What is Isabel?
Saint Kateri had scars on her face from this childhood illness. (FUN FACT:When she died, the scars miraculously disappeared.)
What is small pox?
This explorer suggested that Columbus had discovered a new continent, not a part of Asia and then named the continent “America” in his honor.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Name 3 explorers who came to North America for France.
Who are (any 3 of these) Champlain, Cartier, La Salle, Marquette, Joliet, and Verrazano?
This Spanish explorer journeyed to Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
This port city in Colombia is where Saint Peter Claver spent most of his life serving others.
What is Cartegena?
When someone gives his/her life for his/her faith, he/she is honored by the Church with this title.
What is a martyr?