Explorers
This explorer led a group of Norse to North America in the winter of 1001 and came into contact the local Inuit tribe
Who is Leif Erikson?
Prince Henry contracted scientists and engineers to create this boat to allow them to become the leaders in sea travel.
What is the caravel?
What becomes the booming empire of trading textiles, tools, and fur in North America after the French start to settle there which would play a crucial role in the development of the economy?
What is the fur trade?
Bartolomeu Dias set sail for Asia in 1488, however a huge storm pushed his crew off course to the southern tip of Africa. What would they name this later on?
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
What are some of the main things that explorers out of Europe and Spain are searching for at this time?
What is gold?
What is a route to Asia?
What is China?
In 1271, this explorer joined his father and uncle on an expedition where he discovered the wonders of modern marvels of China
Who is Marco Polo?
What is the capital city of the Aztecs that Cortes is marching to after hearing of its untold riches and gold from the local princess?
What is Tenochtitlan?
What was the religious war that was fought in Palestine for control of the city in the early 1200s?
What is the crusade?
What French explorer sails the Mississippi River, puts up a stone column, and claims the land for France, later naming it Louisiana after King Louis XIV?
Who is Robert de la Salle?
What explorer figured out that Christopher Columbus actually reached a new land, named it the "New World," and was given credit by naming the New continent after him, called the "Americas"?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This explorer sailed on his ship, the Matthew, leading England's first voyage to America in 1497. On his second trip, they hit a huge storm making one of his ships turn back, and him and his men were never heard from or seen again.
Who is John Cabot?
Who was the emperor of the Aztec Empire who believed that the foreigners coming to his land could be the god Quetzalcoatl, who had come to reclaim his throne?
Who is Montezuma?
After Marco Polo's travels, what was the period of curiosity, learning, and knowledge that led to a better understanding of the human body and also sparked artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to create some of the most famous works of art in the world?
What is the Renaissance?
What body of water did Hernando de Soto find and claim for Spain when we went searching for gold near Florida?
What is the Mississippi River?
In 1519, this explorer left Europe with 250 men and 5 ships in hopes of being able to figure out how big the Pacific ocean was and eventually using this route to sail to Asia but would land on the Philippine Islands.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Who was the conquistador who had heard about cities of gold while in Cuba, went out on an expedition to Mexico with 500 men and 11 ships, that would eventually capture the emperor and spread diseases that would eventually bring down the mighty Aztec Empire?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Aztec people stoned this person because of his refusal to stop the foreign invaders from ransacking and looting their capital city?
Who is Emperor Montezumma?
What is the mysterious "passage" called that explorers are looking in North America to start a trade route and lead them to China in Asia?
What is the Northwest Passage?
What is the colony that Cortes builds and claims for Spain and the Roman Catholic Church?
What is Veracruz?
In 1513, this explorer was the first European to discover a way across the Americas by sailing to the Isthmus of Panama and crossing it on foot with the help of several hundred natives.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
What French explorer founded Quebec, the first French settlement in North America and along the St. Lawrence River, was peaceful to the natives, and mapped the local lakes, eventually naming one of them after himself, giving him the name "the father of New France"?
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Who is the Incan emperor who was captured and ransomed to his own people in exchange for gold and silver but was eventually killed?
Who is Atahualpa?
What became of Columbus's voyage that would start a widespread exchange of ideas, agricultural products, and eventually diseases between numerous countries such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is the conquistador that would conquer the Incan tribe using the same tactics as Cortes?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
What explorer tried to reach Asia by sailing through the Arctic Ocean, on his ship the Half Moon, turning back because of ice and landing in present-day New York and claiming the land for the Dutch?
Who is Henry Hudson?