Explorers 1

Who started a school for navigation in Portugal?

• da Gama
• Columbus
• Prince Henry
• Magellan

Who was the first to turn the tip of Africa and name it the Cape of Storms?

• Prince Henry
• Dias
• da Gama
• Columbus

Opened the first European water route to India?

• Magellan
• Prince Henry
• da Gama
• Cortes

Italian explorer for Spain who discovered a "New World."

• Columbus
• de Soto
• Champlain
• da Gama

First man to circumnavigate the world was...

• Dias
• Magellan
• da Balboa
• Cartier

He named the Pacific Ocean after he crossed Panama.

• de Las Casas
  de Las Casas
• Pizarro
• Cortes
• Balboa

The "Greatest Conquistador" who conquered the Aztecs.

• Hudson
• Magellan
• Cortes
• Pizarro

"Cruelest of the Conquistadors" who conquered the Incas even after they gave him what he asked for.

• de Soto
• Pizarro
• Balboa
• Coronado

RCC priest who came as a missionary to the New World and helped protect the natives from slavery.

• Balboa
• Coronado
• do Soto
• de Las Casas

Explored Florida and discovered the Mississippi River.

• Cartier
• Hudson
• de Soto
• Coronado