Name that explorer
Traveled the St. Lawrence River hoping to fin the Pacific Ocean, but instead discovered present day Montreal.
Jacques Cartier
Which man explored new Albany and has 2 waterways named after him?
Henry Hudson
Who was the first to explore in Mexico in 1536?
Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca
Sailed the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the area for the French.
Robert Cavalier de La Salle
Who started their exploration in Mexico and then traveled to Arizona and New Mexico
Vasquez de Coronado
Which man explored along the coast of South America
and the continents were named after him?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who was the first to explore in Florida?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Who invented the 3 masked caravel?
Portuguese
Who explored Newfoundland?
John Cabot
Sailed the Mississippi River looking for the Northwest Passage with Fr. Marquette
Louis Joliet
Who explored Peru and defeated the Incas?
Francisco Pizarro
Which man explored Mexico and told tales of the seven cities of gold?
Cabeza de Vaca
Which man explored the southern tip of South America and his crew circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which man explored the east coast of Mexico and defeated the Aztecs?
Explored the coast of North American from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas
Giovanni de Verrazano
Sailed down the St. Lawrence River and found the settlement of Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
Explored part of the U.S traveling the Mississippi River to the Oklahoma?
Hernando de Soto
Italians studied classical art, literature and science. This got them to do what?
Reexamine and test old theories
The magnetic Compass was invented by whom?
The Chinese
What was added by cartographers to make travel more accurate?
Ocean current directions and latitude coordinates
Explored the area of Panama to the Pacific
Nunez de Balboa
What instrument made it easier for sailors to know the line of latitude because it measured the position of the stars?
Astrolabe
Who better constructed ships, adding a stern rudder and triangular sails that made it possible for ships to sail into the wind?
Arabs
What started to spread throughout Europe that made people want to find new ideas and goals for themselves.
Renaissance
What was invented that made making books easier?
Moveable type