The year Columbus and his three ships sailed (first voyage).
What is 1492?
Explored and claimed what is now the state of New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The Portuguese explorer, Pedro Cabral sent sail this year.
What is 1500?
What were the names of the three ships Christopher Columbus sailed with on his first voyage?
What is the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
The year to Vasco da Gama sent sail from Portugal headed for Africa, and eventually reaching India.
What is 1497?
French, English, and Dutch explorers hoped to discover a ___________________________ to Asia, a direct water route through the Americas.
What is the Northwest Passage?
English explorer who landed on the coast of present-day Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
The king and queen who funded Christopher Columbus's voyages.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
In ______________ Hernan Cortes landed on the coast of present-day Mexico.
What is 1519?
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Francisco Pizarro sailed twelve years after Cortes to this destination.
This European country sponsored Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.
What is Spain?
In __________ Henry Hudson and his crew landed on the shores of Delaware Bay.
What is 1609?
Christopher Columbus was born in this country.
What is Italy?
A Portuguese explorer who sailed to the southernmost part of Africa, passing the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
The year Leif Eriksson explored the lands west of Greenland.
What is 1000?
A Portuguese prince who promoted exploration by setting up a school of navigation.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
Hernando de Soto was the first to cross what?
What is the Mississippi River?