Early Explorers
Christopher Columbus had a main reason for sailing West.
What was finding a water route to Asia?
Hernando Cortes conquered this empire in Mexico.
Who were the Aztecs?
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal?
This nation sponsored Christopher Columbus's expedition in 1492.
What was Spain?
Christopher Columbus thought he landed in this continent in 1492.
What is Asia?
These Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who were the Vikings?
This Spanish Conquistador took control of the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
Verrazano, Cartier, and Hudson all search for this in North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Henry Hudson suffered this fate on his final voyage.
What is a crew mutiny?
These 2 facts proved Christopher Columbus did not land in Asia.
What is Amerigo Vespucci's mapping and Balboa's expedition reaches the Pacific?
He led the first expedition to sail around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
He was the first explorer to cross the isthmus between the Americas and reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
He explored and named the state of Florida for Spain.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
He explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now New York.
Who was Henry Hudson?
This invention sparked the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe and made it possible for ideas to be shared more easily.
What is the printing press?
Early explorers faced 3 major obstacles when it came to expeditions.
What is lack of technology, lack of money, and fear of the unknown.
What was Juan Ponce de Leon looking for and what did he find?
Fountain of Youth and Florida.
What was the Northwest Passage?
Name three things an explorer needed to complete an expedition.
Ship, crew, and supplies.
This event kept Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand too busy to support Christopher Columbus before 1492.
What is the Reconquista?
Who was the man that went to live in China and wrote about the amazing things he saw there?
Marco Polo
He explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of the United States.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
Explorers searched for the Northwest Passage for certain reasons.
What was a shortcut to trade, wealth and power?
These are the 3 reasons Spanish Explorers went on their expeditions.
Gold, Glory, and God
The reason Christopher Columbus called named the native 'Indians'
What is because he thought he landed in the "Indies"?