Explorers
This explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This explorer has a river in New York that is named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The use of scientific knowledge and tools.
What is Technology?
What is navigation?
These people reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
Explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of what is now the United States.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This explorer what the first to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
A trip taken with the goal of exploring.
What is an expedition?
A reward that you gain.
What is a benefit?
This Empire in Mexico was conquered by Hernando Cortes' army.
What is the Aztec Empire?
Explored and claimed for Spain much of what is now the Southwestern United States.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
Explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Lands ruled by a nation that won control of them.
What is an Empire?
A person who sets up and runs a buisiness.
Who is an entrepreneur?
This country sponsored Columbus's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.
What is Spain?
Explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
Explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
The effort made to achieve or gain something, also considered a loss.
What is Cost?
What is the Reconquista?
Verrazano, Cartier, and Hudson all searched for this.
What is the Northwest Passage?
A Spanish conquistador that took over the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
During this expedition the crew mutinied and set him adrift.
What is Hudson's last voyage?
What is a person who sets up and runs a business?
Definition of Navigation
What is the science of planning and following a route?
The main reason Columbus sailed west from Europe.
What is to find a more direct route to Asia?