Vikings & Italians and Portuguese
This Italian merchant traveled the Silk Road to Asia.
Marco Polo
Which explorer is the Americas named after?
The large river that runs between New York City and New Jersey north through New York State, along with the second largest bay in the world are named after this explorer.
Henry Hudson
This was a motivation for French exploration and settlement in the New World, and one reason why they wanted to build relationships with the Native Americans.
Fur Trade
This is another word for the study of family history.
Genealogy
This Viking who was the son of Erik the Red, is thought to be the first European to reach North America.
Leif Erikson
This explorer named Florida and may have been searching for the Fountain of Youth there.
Ponce de Leon
Queen Elizabeth knighted this explorer who was the second to circumnavigate the globe.
Sir Francis Drake
This is the first Eurpoean to travel through Indiana, and was eventually killed by his own men.
Robert de la Salle
The Spanish word for "Conqueror", which is also the term used for some of the Spanish explorers.
Conquistador
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail past the southern tip of Africa to India.
Vasco da Gama
This is the explorer that conquered the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortez
This explorer found a great place to fish for cod.
John Cabot
A French missionary who traveled down the Mississippi River in a canoe with Louis Joliet.
Jacques Marquette
Named after Christopher Columbus, this was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and Eurpoe in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Columbian Exchange
This wealthy Portuguese man sponsored many trips around the west coast of Africa, and may have been one of the first Europeans to participate in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Prince Henry the Navigator
How many trips did Christopher Columbus make to the New World during his lifetime?
4
What happend to this English explorer after his crew committed mutiny is unknown.
Henry Hudson
This French explorer named Canada.
Jacques Cartier
The waterway that explorers searched for several hundred years for that would cross the American continent and allow them to sail to Asia for trade. Many died looking for it, but it never really existed.
Northwest Passage
This is the name of the island where Christopher Columbus made a settlement in the New World, and today is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Hispanola
This Portuguese man who explored for Spain led the first crew to circumnavigate the globe but died in the Philippines before returning to Spain.
Ferdinand Megellan
This explorer was born in Italy, but then changed his name to the English version, and explored for England.
John Cabot
This French explorer found Lake Huron with the help of the natives. He also made enemies with the Iroquois tribe.
Samuel de Champlain
This was between 1095 and 1205, when European countries fought against Muslims in the Middle East to gain control of Jerusalem.
The Crusades