Explorers
Explorers 2
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Fun Facts
100

This explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This explorer has a river in New York that is named after him.

Who is Henry Hudson?

100

The use of scientific knowledge and tools.

What is Technology?

100
The science of planning and following a route.

What is navigation?

100

These people reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.

Who are the Vikings?

200

Explored and claimed for Spain much of the southern half of what is now the United States.

Who is Hernando de Soto?

200

This explorer what the first to sail around the world.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

A trip taken with the goal of exploring.

What is an expedition?

200

A reward that you gain.

What is a benefit?

200

This Empire in Mexico was conquered by Hernando Cortes' army.

What is the Aztec Empire?

300

Explored and claimed for Spain much of what is now the Southwestern United States.

Who is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?

300

Explored and claimed for Holland much of what is now the state of New York and surrounding areas.

Who is Henry Hudson?

300

Lands ruled by a nation that won control of them.

What is an Empire?

300

A person who sets up and runs a buisiness.

Who is an entrepreneur?

300

This country sponsored Columbus's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.

What is Spain?

400

Explored and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

400

Explored the land that connects the Americas and became the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.

Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?

400

The effort made to achieve or gain something, also considered a loss. 

What is Cost?

400
This was an event in history where Muslims had to give up their Islamic regions.

What is the Reconquista?

400

Verrazano, Cartier, and Hudson all searched for this.

What is the Northwest Passage?

500

A Spanish conquistador that took over the Inca Empire in Peru.

Who is Francisco Pizzaro?

500

During this expedition the crew mutinied and set him adrift.

What is Hudson's last voyage?

500
Definition of Entrepreneur

What is a person who sets up and runs a business?

500

Definition of Navigation

What is the science of planning and following a route?

500

The main reason Columbus sailed west from Europe.

What is to find a more direct route to Asia?