Important People
Man who led the voyage of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Christopher Columbus
The most famous British "sea dog"
Sir Francis Drake
The largest continent
Asia
The largest ocean
Pacific Ocean
Amount of continents and oceans
7 Continents
4 Oceans
Merchant who visited China and described its riches to Europe
Marco Polo
Explorer who first called America a "New World"
Amerigo Vespucci
The continent Columbus tried to reach
Asia
The continent responsible for the settlement of the New World
Europe
The hemisphere that North America is located in
Northern
Explorer who discovered Florida
Juan Ponce de Leon
Explorer who discovered the Grand Canyon
Francisco de Coronado
The country that gave Columbus the money for his voyage
Spain
Canada's original name
New France
The year that Columbus discovered America
1492
Explorer who first sailed around Africa to get to India
Vasco de Gama
Explorer who first saw the Pacific Ocean
Vasco de Balboa
The place Columbus first landed
San Salvador
The country that made friends with the Indians and traded with them
France
Name for a body of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides
Peninsula
Explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
Hernando de Soto
Man who founded the first permanent French settlement in the New World
Samuel de Champlain
The first Spanish settlement in America
St. Augustine
3 Countries that had a claim of land in North America
England, Spain, France
Name of a great Indian tribe that lived in Mexico
Aztecs