He was the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
100
He sailed around Africa's Cape of Good Hope all the way to India in 1497-1499, showing a way to India without using the Silk Road.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
100
He was a French explorer who started new settlements in Canada, sometimes known as the "Father of New France"
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
100
He explored the American Southwest in search of the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
100
A settlement far away from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
200
He defeated the Aztec in 1521 and later founded Mexico City.
Who is Hernando Cortez?
200
He led the first expedition around the southern tip of Africa, which was later named the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
200
an English explorer who was looking for a Northwest Passage across North America.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
He led the first expedition across the Isthmus of Panama in 1513.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
200
Capital of the Aztec empire from the 1300s to the 1500s, Mexico City is built on its ruins.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
His forces conquered the Incan Empire in Peru, South America while seeking gold and other riches.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
300
He was leader of the first expedition to complete the first known voyage around the world, although he died en route, his crew finished the voyage.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
was possibly the first European to sail to North America around the year 1000 a.d.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
300
This is another name for a Spanish soldier.
What is conquistador?
300
The first group of people Columbus encountered in the islands off the coast of the Americas.
Who are the Taino?
400
He reached what is now Florida in 1513 while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
400
He sailed under the Spanish flag seeking a shorter, less expensive route to Asia but he landed on some islands off the coast of the Americas instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
Italian who wrote a book about his 24 years traveling across Asia, from Europe to China.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
A very large piece of land that often included several Indian villages, ran by a Spanish governor.
What is encomienda?
400
Small settlement in northeastern Canada founded around 1000 a.d. by northern Europeans.
What is Vinland?
500
He was the first to reach what is now Texas, traveling from Florida to Texas on a raft, then walking to Mexico City.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
500
The movement of people, plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 1400s.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
3 Englishmen with the same first name: 1 was leader of Roanoke Colony in 1587 and 2 were leaders of Jamestown settlement in 1607 and 1614.
Who are John White, John Smith, and John Rolfe?
500
A Roman Catholic missionary who spoke out against mistreatment of Indians in encomiendas in New Spain.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
500
Colony that included all the conquered lands of the Aztec, Inca, Maya, and other peoples of the Americas.