Spanish Explorers
Portuguese Explorers
Places Explored
Interesting/Important Information
Kingdoms or Countries
100
explored Mexico and the Southwest US
What is Juan de Onate
100
Discovered what is now Brazil.
What is Pedro Alvarez Cabral
100
The South East U.S.
What is Hernando de Soto
100
Died of fever and his body was either put into the Mississippi River or buried on its banks.
What is Hernando de Soto?
100
This kingdom sent the most explorers
What is Spain
200
Explored Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro
200
First to go around the southern tip of Africa
What is Bartolomeu Dias
200
Landed on an island in the Carribbean.
What is Christopher Colombus?
200
Ransomed the Inca emperor for a roomful of gold.
What is Francisco Pizarro?
200
The king and queen of Spain at the time of Colombus.
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
300
Explored central Mexico
What is Hernan Cortes
300
Discovered Brazil by accident while
What is trying to go around the hump of Western Africa
300
Explored across Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean.
What is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
300
burned his ships so that there would be no question of his soldier going home
What is Hernan Cortes
300
This kingdom sent out the very first explorers out of all the Europeans.
What is Portugal?
400
Discovered the New World
What is Christopher Colombus
400
Rounded the tip of Africas while
What is trying to find a sea route to India?
400
Around the world.
What is Francis Drake?
400
He was an African slave
What is Estevanico
400
This kingdom's explorers were the last of the big three (Spain, Portugal and England) to send out explorers.
What is England?
500
He was an African slave.
What is Estevanico
500
BONUS! He was the person who made Portugal the top kingdom in navigation and finding a sea route to India
What is Prince Henry of Portugal or Henry the Navigator?
500
The coast of what is now Virginia
What is Walter Raleigh?
500
He ended up getting beheaded
What is Walter Raleigh
500
This kingdom used privateers.
What is England?
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