Portuguese Explorers
This explorer was the first to sail to the southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
Which Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, discovered the New World in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Which Italian explorer led the first expedition to North America for England?
John Cabot
Name of the Island Christopher Columbus claimed for Spain?
Hispaniola
What was Columbus searching for when he discovered America?
India
This explorer was the first to sail to India from the southern tip of Africa.
Vasco de Gama
Which Spanish Explorer led an expedition in to Florida?
Juan Ponce de Leon
English explorer who helped found the colony of Roanoke?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Name of the ruler of the Aztec Empire?
Montezuma II
Who led the Spanish exploration into the American southwest?
Francisco Coronado
What year did Bartolomeu Dias reach the Cape of Good Hope?
1488
Which Spanish explorer led an expedition across Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco de Balboa
English explorer who explored the interior of North America and the area that became New York City. Has a bay and river named after him.
Henry Hudson
Name of the explorer/ conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
Which Spanish priest spoke out against the treatment of the indigenous people of North America?
Bartolomé de las Casas
What year did Vasco de Gama reach India?
1498
What was Ferdinand Magellan famous for?
circumnavigating the world
First English Explorer to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
What was Juan Ponce de Leon searching for in Florida?
The fountain of youth
What were the name of the king and queen of Spain who hired Christopher Columbus to sail to the new world?
Ferdinand and Isabella
What trade route was closed in 1453 forcing Europeans to find a new route to India?
The Silk Road
Which Empire did Hernan Cortes conquer in Mexico?
Aztec Empire
The word found carved in a tree, that was the only evidence of the lost colony of Roanoke?
Croatoan
What was the document read to indigenous people before the Spanish conquered them?
The Requerimiento
What was the name of the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan