Explorers

I was the first guy to finally realize that Cabot and Columbus were NOT in Asia, but they had been in a new land.  America was named after me.

• Vespucci
• Polo
• Balboa
• Magellan

I was truly the first person in the Americas.  I arrived here with my Viking friends in the year 1000 AD.

• Columbus
• Polo
• Erickson
• Cabot

I am the conquistador that conquered much of what is today the southeastern U.S. for Spain.  I was a very stern man.

• Cortes
• de Soto
• Pizarro
• Coronado

I took control of the Inca empire and claimed it for Spain.

• Cortes
• de Leon
• de Soto
• Pizarro

I started a school for navigators and people who wanted to go out exploring.

• Columbus
• Prince Henry
• Polo
• Magellan

I am an Italian explorer who was hired by the King of England to go out exploring after Columbus.  I landed on what is today Newfoundland, but I thought I was in Asia.

• Vespucci
• Cabot
• Erickson
• Balboa

I was the person who named the Pacific Ocean.  My men were among the first to travel around the world, but unfortunately I died in battle in the Philippine Islands.

• Balboa
• Vespucci
• Columbus
• Magellan

I (actually others) wrote a book about the riches that I found in China.

• Prince Henry
• Polo
• Magellan
• Columbus

I am the conquistador that went looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.  Though I never found these cities, I did conquer much of what is today the southwestern U.S. for Spain.

• Cortes
• Pizarro
• de Soto
• Coronado

I crossed the Isthmus of Panama and found the Pacific Ocean as I climbed over a mountaintop.

• Balboa
• Vespucci
• Magellan
• Cabot