Explorers
This person "sailed the ocean blue" in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This Spaniard led the expedition that conquered the Aztec Triple Alliance in Tenochtitlan.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This is the modern name for the island chain where Columbus first landed.
What is the Bahamas?
This person was a Spanish priest who was appalled at the behavior of Columbus and advocated for better treatment of the Natives.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
This was how more than 75% of Natives met their deaths after Europeans arrived in the Americas.
What is disease? (Smallpox is also acceptable)
These Northern dwelling raiders were technically the first Europeans to come to the Americas.
Who are the Vikings?
This Spaniard led the expedition that captured Atahualpa and conquered the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This is the main coastline that Amerigo Vespucci explored.
What is South America?
This person was the leader of the Aztec Triple Alliance when Cortes & his Spanish Conquistadors arrived.
Who is Moctezuma II?
This was a split in the Catholic church caused by conflicting interpretations of the Bible and other Christian rules/teachings.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This was how explorers like Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeo Dias were able to navigate to Asia.
What is sailing around Africa/the Cape of Good Hope?
According to legend, what was Ponce de Leon looking for when he explored Florida?
The Fountain of Youth
This is the modern name for the place most French explorers ventured into.
What is Canada?
Virginia is named for Queen Elizabeth I, who gave this person a charter to found an English colony in the Americas.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This is what the Portuguese named Southern tip of Africa after their explorers made their was around it.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Name 2 of the 4 explorers we mentioned that looked for the Northwest Passage.
Who are (Henry Hudson, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, & Giovanni da Verrazzano)?
This is one of the reasons the Spanish were able to easily defeat the Aztecs, Incas, and other tribes of Mesoamerica
What is (disease, superior weapons, alliances with other tribes)?
This is the modern name for where the Aztecs were located.
What is Mexico?
This person is who the colony of Louisiana was named after.
Who is King Louis XIV of France?
This person was an English sea captain who plundered Spanish ships with the permission of Queen Elizabeth.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
Name one of the 3 things Henry the Navigator did to help Portugal's exploration efforts.
What are he built an observatory, financed map & shipmakers, and paid for expeditions?
This conquistador/explorer's team were the first Europeans to see the Mississippi River.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca & Estavanico (Esteban)
This is where Ferdinand Magellan was killed partway through his voyage around the globe.
What are the Philippines?
This person was the first European to view the Pacific Ocean after traveling across modern-day Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
Name one of the three types of settlements started by the Spanish in the American colonies.
Pueblos (trading posts), missions (religious centers/churches), & presidios (forts/military bases)