Italian Explorers
The Polos were in this country for 20 years.
What is China?
De Soto was named by the Spanish king to be the Governor of this island.
What is Cuba?
John Cabot explored for England, but he was actually born in this country.
What is Italy?
This explorer was the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
Vespucci thought he was the first European to find and identify the New World, but it was actually these people.
Who are Leif Erikson and the Vikings?
What is make a book about his travels?
Coronado was searching for this place.
What is the Seven Cities of Gold?
He was the first European to reach the tip of Africa.
Who was Dias?
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
The Vikings made it to North America this many years before Columbus.
What is 500 years?
Verrazzano was the first to realize this about America.
What is that it was new land and not connected to Asia?
Pizarro was able to defeat 8,000 Incas with his small army of 160 men by doing this.
What is he ambushed them when they were unarmed?
The tip of Africa was given this name by the King of Portugal.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Europeans called America this when they first arrived.
What is The New World?
Greenland was named Greenland so that people would think it was...
green and beautiful (even though it was actually cold and icy)
This Explorer was the first person to identify America as a new continent.
Who was Vespucci?
This legend led Ponce de Leon to Florida.
What is the Fountain of Youth?
Jacques Cartier was born in this country.
What is France?
Explorers always brought bible with them to new places because...
they thought all people should be Christians.
This Viking was Leif Erikson's dad.
Who is Erik the Red?
The American continents were named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
Magellan's voyage around the world proved this.
What is the earth is round?
Explorers did this when they claimed land for their country.
What is put a flag in it?
There is a bridge in New York City named after this Explorer.
Who is Giovanni de Verrazzano?
This was the first island that Columbus and his crew landed on.
What is San Salvador?
Sir Francis Drake was the 2nd explorer to accomplish this.
What is circumnavigate the world (or sail all the way around the world)?
Compass needles always point in this direction.
What is north?