Explorers
Exploration Vocab
Country Exploration
New World
Misc
English Explorers
Spanish Explorers
French Explorers
100
Who discovered the new world?
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
Instrument introduced by Europeans that helped determine latitude by measuring the angle of the sun or stars. 
What is astrolabe
100
Who sent Magellan?
What is Portugal
100
Who discovered the new world?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Why did countries send explorers?
What is to find trade routes
100
He led the 1497 voyage often credited as the first English explorer to reach North America.
Who was John Cabot?
100
He led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519–1521.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
100
He explored the St. Lawrence River in 1534 and claimed parts of Canada for France.
200
Who was the first to sail around the world?
Who is Magellan
200
What was a small, fast ship?
What is a caravel?
200
Which country sent Christopher Columbus?
What is Spanish
200
Where did Leif Eriksson land in North America?
What is Nova Scotia
200
What as the first permanant English Settlement
What is Jamestown
200
This 1587 colony on Roanoke Island is famous for its "Lost" status.
What was the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
200
Disease brought by Europeans devastated Indigenous populations; one example is this disease often cited in accounts of massive declines.
What is smallpox?
200
This French navigator's 1608 founding of a settlement at Quebec is often considered the beginning of permanent French presence in North America.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
300
Who was the first to travel to India?
Who is De Gama
300
What is a large farm?
What is a plantation
300
Who sent Hernando Cortez?
What is Spain
300
What country had the smallest claims of land in the new world?
What is the Netherlands
300
What was the technology of direction in the 1500s?
What is a Compass
300
English privateers like this one attacked Spanish ships and helped fund English expeditions; he circumnavigated the globe (second to do so).
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
300
He conquered the Inca Empire in the 1530s with a small force and captured Atahualpa.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
300
Founded in 1608, this city became the administrative and economic center of New France.
What is Quebec City?
400
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
400
What is conquistador?
What is a Spanish explorer
400
Who the Dutch send to map out land?
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
Who was the new world named after?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
400
What are the three G's?
What is Gold, Glory, 
and God
400
He searched for the Northwest Passage and explored parts of present-day Canada in the early 17th century; a river bears his name.
Who was Henry Hudson?
400
He crossed the Isthmus of Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World (1513).
Who was Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
400
This vast territory claimed by France in North America extended from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes.
What was Louisiana (or New France including Louisiana)?
500
Who was the first to settle in North America?
Who is Leif Eriksson
500
What is an armada?
What is a fleet of warships
500
Which country sent Da Gama?
What is Portugal
500
The island in the Caribbean where Columbus first landed in 1492; it later became a Spanish base for mainland exploration.
What is Hispaniola?
500
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Who is Francis Drake
500
He led multiple expeditions to the Chesapeake in the 1580s and helped popularize colonization efforts; he’s linked to the early Virginia Company.
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh
500
This 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal divided newly discovered lands outside Europe.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
He explored the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi region in the 1670s and founded several missions and fur-trading posts.
Who was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle? (La Salle)