He explored the lands in what is now the southwestern U.S. He did not find the seven cities of gold but claimed Spanish lands that were called New Spain.
Who is Coronado?
100
The man, who was honored by German mapmaker, Martin Waldeseemuller, with the use of his name for the land of a continent and later a second continent.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
100
Expeditions made by the French went as far north as this Canadian city which means "Mount Royal".
What is Montreal?
100
The period of changes or reforms
What is the Reformation?
100
The waterway that allowed for an important new trade route between Europe and Asia and also to obtain great riches.
What is Northwest Passage
200
The man who conquered the Aztecs and created Mexico City, the new capital of Spain in the Americas.
Who is Cortes?
200
He was fascinated with the stories he had heard of wealth in Asia and commissioned King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to support his plan.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
200
The French king who was on of the many European rulers who wanted to find the Northwest Passage through North America. He sent Verrazano to find it.
Who was Francis I?
200
The Spanish explorers became known as the ______________ or conquerors.
What is the conquistadors?
200
New Foundland and Labrador are parts of this country.
What is Canada?
300
The first Spanish explorer to set foot on land that became part of the U.S. and he named the state of Floride, La Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
The Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, traveled 4,100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to this island in the Caribbean Sea.
What was San Salvador?
300
A French navigator who reached the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and claimed all the land around it for France
Who was Jacques Cartier?
300
An agreement between countries.
What is a treaty?
300
This body of water's name means "peaceful" which was given by Portugese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
He conquered the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
400
This Italian sailor was paid by King Henry VII of England to sail west across the Atlantic. The English changed his beautiful Italian name.
Who was Giovanni Caboto or John Cabot?
400
The French navigator sailed north up the St. Lawrence River and into this French-speaking province of Canada.
What is Quebec?
400
Large of sums of money that were given to those who led expeditions
What are grants?
400
A narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas.
What is an isthmus?
500
The conquistador who explored southeastern U.S. and sailed from Cuba to Tampa Bay. He died in America.
Who was de Soto?
500
This Italian explorer found the elusive country of China.
Who was NO ONE!
500
When he left North America, Cartier took a supply of this crop from the Native Americans and brought it back to France. Many Europeans had never seen this food before.
What is corn?
500
This navigational tool tells sailors if they are going north, south, east, or west.
What is a compass?
500
500 miles off the coast of southeastern Asia lie these islands where Magellan was killed.