Christopher Columbus
He was born in this country.
What is Italy?
This explorer from England explored Canada and sailed as far south as the Chesapeake Bay.
Who is John Cabot?
To bring into a country, usually for sale.
What is import?
Primary direction Columbus sailed from Spain to the Americas
What is west?
Banana - old or new world?
What is Old World?
This country financed his expedition.
What is Spain?
He defeated the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
A community ruled by another country, not by its own people.
What is a colony?
These 3 countries make up North America.
What is Canada, the United States and Mexico?
This tool is used to find directions using a magnetic needle.
What is a compass?
The names of his 3 ships on his first expedition.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
He explored for France and identified the Saint Lawrence river.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
An early navigational tool to find a position using the stars or the sun. It is circular piece of metal with markings around its edges.
What is an astrolabe.
The largest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
First explorer to circumnavigate (sail around) the world.
Whos Is Ferdinand Magellan?
The main reason he made his voyage.
What is find a better trade route to Asia?
The river on the west side of Manhattan is named after this English explorer.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Term for Spanish explorers who conquered people of the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain.
What is a conquistador?
Body of water off the east coast of Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean?
He discovered Florida searching for the fountain of youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
The name he gave to the Caribbean island where he first landed.
What is San Salvador (modern day Hispanola the home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic)?
This French explorer discovered the Mississippi River.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
European explorers looked for this sea route through the northern part of North America but it was never fond.
What is the Northwest Passage?
New World country where the Incas lived.
What is Peru?
This explorer killed Native Americans in Kansas when he did not find gold.
Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?