Portuguese Explorers
Spanish Explorers
English Explorers
New World
Miscellaneous
100

This explorer was the first to sail to the southern tip of Africa?

Bartolomeu Dias

100

Which Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, discovered the New World in 1492?

Christopher Columbus

100

Which Italian explorer led the first expedition to North America for England?

John Cabot

100

Name of the Island Christopher Columbus claimed for Spain?

Hispaniola

100

What was Columbus searching for when he discovered America?

India

200

This explorer was the first to sail to India from the southern tip of Africa.

Vasco de Gama

200

Which Spanish Explorer led an expedition in  to Florida?

Juan Ponce de Leon

200

English explorer who helped found the colony of Roanoke?

Sir Walter Raleigh

200

Name of the ruler of the Aztec Empire?

Montezuma II

200

Who led the Spanish exploration into the American southwest?

Francisco Coronado

300

What year did Bartolomeu Dias reach the Cape of Good Hope?

1488

300

Which Spanish explorer led an expedition across Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean?

Vasco de Balboa

300

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

300

Name of the explorer/ conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire?

Hernan Cortes

300

Which Spanish priest spoke out against the treatment of the indigenous people of North America?

Bartolomé de las Casas

400

What year did Vasco de Gama reach India?

1498

400

What was Ferdinand Magellan famous for?

circumnavigating the world

400

First English Explorer to sail around the world?

Sir Francis Drake

400

What was Juan Ponce de Leon searching for in Florida?

The fountain of youth

400

What were the name of the king and queen of Spain who hired Christopher Columbus to sail to the new world?

Ferdinand and Isabella

500

What trade route was closed in 1453 forcing Europeans to find a new route to India?

The Silk Road

500

Which Empire did Hernan Cortes conquer in Mexico?

Aztec Empire

500

The word found carved in a tree, that was the only evidence of the lost colony of Roanoke?

Croatoan

500

What was the document read to indigenous people before the Spanish conquered them?

The Requerimiento

500

What was the name of the capital of the Aztec Empire?

Tenochtitlan

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