North America Before Discovery
How did the first humans travel to the continent of North America?
Land Bridge (During Last Ice Age)
This Italian born explorer was the first to "discover" the "new world"?
Christopher Columbus
First English explorer to North America?
John Cabot
Viking explorer who may have been the first European to North America?
Leif Erikson
Spanish king and queen who sponsored the first explorer who found the Americas?
Ferdinand and Isabella
Name the three crops Native Americans grew for food?
Corn, Beans, and Squash
This explorer led an expedition across Florida searching for the fountain of youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon
First English explorer to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
Portuguese explorer who first sailed around the tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
First island discovered by explorers in 1492?
Hispaniola
Empire that existed in Mexico at the time European explorers arrived?
Aztec Empire
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe (he died on the journey).
Ferdinand Magellan
First English explorer to search the interior coast lines of North America (and have bodies of water named after him)?
Henry Hudson
Portuguese explorer who found the first sea route to India?
Vasco de Gama
How many times Columbus sailed to the "new world"?
4
Empire that existed in South America at the time European explorers arrived?
Incan Empire
This explorer was a conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
What country was John Cabot from?
Italy
Explorer who explored the American southwest in search of gold?
Francisco Coronado
On what island was Cortes governor?
Cuba
Aztec Emperor when Spanish explorers conquered the Aztec Empire?
Moctezuma II
First European explorer to reach the Pacific ocean?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Where is the famous passage named after Sir Francis Drake located (between what two continents)?
South America and Antarctica
Conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire?
Dominican priest who thought spanish treated Native Americans unfairly?
Bartolomé de Las Casa