Northern Explorers
5th century Ireland
Where did St. Brendan come from?
He refused to fund Columbus and later regretted it.
Who is King John of Portugal?
The three boats that went on Columbus' expedition.
What are the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María?
He was looking for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de León?
First explorer to sail around south Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
Who is Eric the Red?
The large South American country that was possible because of the Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal.
What is Brazil?
The first place where Christopher Columbus landed in the New World.
What is San Salvador? (an island in the Bahamas)
The state that was thought to be an island that supposedly contained the Fountain of Youth.
What is Florida?
This explorer went south around the tip of Africa and actually arrived at the country of India, opening this trade route for all of Europe.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
A Christian Viking from Greenland.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
The country that eventually funded Columbus' expeditions after saying 'no' twice.
What is Spain?
Name two more islands that Christopher Columbus explored.
What are Cuba and Hispaniola (modern day Haiti & the Dominican Republic)?
Was the first explorer to see that there was another ocean on the other side of the land of the "New World".
Who is Vasco Nuñez de Balboa?
The first explorer to find a passage to India by sailing southwest through the southern tip of South America. He also named the Pacific Ocean and sailed across it.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Explorer originally from Genoa (Italy) like Columbus.
Who is John Cabot?
The country that got jealous of Spain and Portugal's expeditions in the new world and therefore started to claim land they had once been disappointed by.
What is England?
The reason Christopher Columbus gave up finding a passage to the great civilizations of the Indies after sailing along the coast of Central America.
What is getting stuck in the Caribbean because there was no passage through the land?
The country in Central America with the skinniest land mass.
What is Panama?
The first explorer whose boat circumnavigated the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
He sailed from England to Canada and named Ericsson's Vinland, "Newfoundland".
Name the three countries in the competition for control of land in the New World.
Spain, Portugal, and England
The country named after Christopher Columbus, even though he never set foot there (he explored the coast of the country next to it).
What is Colombia?
The modern passage through Central America that had to be dug out by hand.
What is the Panama Canal?
The country where Magellan was killed by a native on his way back to Spain.
What is the Philippines?