Explorers One
He spent 17 years in Cathay and wrote a book about it that inspired future explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
He opened up the Western Hemisphere for Europeans.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
He was the first European to find the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando De Soto?
He found the St. Lawrence River and claimed it for France.
Who is Jaques Cartier?
He was the first European to reach what is now the Pacific Ocean and claimed if for Spain naming it the South Sea.
Who is Vasco De Balboa?
He opened up the school of navigation in Portugal where the caravel was designed.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
He explored present day Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
Who is Henry Hudson?
He conquered the Incas for their gold.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
He founded the first French Settlement, Quebec, in the New World.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This was the legendary city of gold in Mexico
What is Cibola?
His expedition circumnavigated the world proving it was round.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
He was the first European to travel an all-water route to Asia by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
He explored the Southwest for Spain and saw the Grand Canyon.
Who is Coronado?
He claimed the land around the Mississippi River for France and called it Louisiana.
Who is Robert de LaSalle?
What is a plantation?
He claimed land in the New World for England which later lead to the 13 English colonies.
Who is John Cabot?
This was the name of Magellan's one remaining ship that successfully circumnavigated the globe.
What is the Victory?
He conquered the Aztecs for their gold.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
He was the French explorer looking for the Northwest Passage but explored present day New York and North Carolina.
Who is Giovanni Verrazano?
This is the piece of land, usually given by the king of Spain.
What is encomienda?
He realized Columbus had discovered a new continent and mapmakers named it after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
His invention of the printing press with movable type allowed Marco Polo's book to be published in quantity.
Who is Johannas Gutenberg?
Myths say he was looking for the fountain of youth, but he claimed Florida for Spain.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
This is who killed and ate Verrazano.
Who are the Caribs?
These are the three levels of colonial society in New Spain.
What are peninsulares, creoles, and mestizos?