Dead White Dudes
His exploration started the Age of Explorations
Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo wanted to create passage from Europe to Asia for this yummy trade.
The Spice Trade
Columbus sailed in 1492
The Age of Exploration Begins
Balboa, Pizarro, and Cortes all claimed land in the name of this country.
Spain
The Sandwhich Islands are now know as this.
The Hawaiian Islands
He thought he could find the City of Gold.
Coronado
Pizarro really only wanted this from the Inca's.
Gold
Pizzaro wants gold from the Inca's
Wars cause the Inca's to fall
Spain is on this Continent
Europe
Spain really wanted the Aztecs to follow this religion.
Catholicism
Even though we credit Christopher Columbus with being the first European to find North America, the credit should really go to this Viking.
Leif Erickson
Fame
The Travels of Marco Polo is published
The book inspires Columbus to travel
Ponce de Leon claimed this now state in the name of Spain.
Florida
The continent that Marco Polo explored
Asia
We credit him with "finding" the Hawaiian Islands.
Cook
Hernan Cortes got to go to war with the Aztecs because they had refused his mission of spreading this, and renouncing their own.
religion
European Explorers meet Natives of far off lands
Natives die of diseases because their immune systems cannot fight it off
The French enter the race of exploration and claim this country in the name of France. Some areas still speak French!
Canada
Pizarro was best dude friends with this Spanish explorer that wanted to help expand the Spanish Empire.
Balboa
This man's book that was published from prison inspired the Age Exploration two hundred years before it even began.
Marco Polo
Ponce de Leon's main purpose of exploration
To claim land
Cortes is sent to Central and South America to claim land for Spain.
Aztec Empire Falls
Magellan came from this European country
Portugal
The Travels of Marco Polo was published in this year.
1295