This is the European explorer who is popularly given credit for first "discovering" America?
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
This conquistador is famous for conquering the Aztecs.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
100
Christopher Columbus believed that he'd landed in this island chain.
What is the Indies?
100
America was named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
Religious teachers who try to convert people to their faith.
What are missionaries?
200
He was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean (traveling overland to do so).
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
200
This conquistador is known for exploring much of the southern half of what is now the United States and claiming it for Spain.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
200
This early European traveled across land to Asia and lived with the Kublai Khan. His travel stories motivated many later explorers to find the riches of Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
This was a device that helped explorers measure altitude of stars, the moon, and the sun.
What is an astrolabe?
300
Another word for scientific knowledge and tools.
What is technology?
300
This explorer led the expedition to sail around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This explorer set out looking for the Seven Cities of Gold, but ended up exploring the area later known as the southwestern United States.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
300
This was considered a "shortcut" to Asia, through the waterways north of North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This Spanish explorer was thought to be a light-skinned god whose arrival was predicted by a prophesy.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
400
The science of planning and following a route.
What is navigation?
400
Which European explorer was set off in a boat adrift when his crew mutinied?
Who was Henry Hudson?
400
This Spanish explorer was looking for the Fountain of Youth, but ended up in Florida
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
400
The Spanish were particularly interested in sending these people out to convert new followers to Christianity.
What were missionaries?
400
This Native American civilization was not well-liked by its neighbors, particularly since they liked to capture people and use them in human sacrifices.
Who are the Aztecs?
500
A narrow strip of land that connects two land areas.
What is an isthmus?
500
These people were the first known Europeans to reach North America, 500 years before Christopher Columbus
Who were the Vikings?
500
This conquistador is famous for conquering the Inca empire in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
500
Many European kings and queens were after this form of riches.
What is gold?
500
This Italian explorer was given an English name when he was sponsored by England. He thought that Canada was Asia, even though the land bore NO resemblance to descriptions of Asia.