Explorers

Who discovered Canada?

• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Hernan Cortes
• Vasco da Gama

Who discovered Florida while looking for the "Fountain of Youth?"

• Hernan Cortes
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Pizarro
• Juan Ponce de Leon

Who helped Portugal train explorers by starting navigation schools?

• Vasco da Gama
• Henry the Navigator
• Henry Hudson
• John Cabot

Who sailed "West" to reach the Indies?

• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci
• John Cabot
• Henry Hudson

Who called the native people "Indians" because he thought he was in the Indies?

• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Vasco da Gama
• Amerigo Vesupucci
• Christopher Columbus

Who conquered the Aztecs in what is now Mexico?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernan Cortes
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco da Gama

Who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernan Cortes
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Ferdinand Magellan

Who is given credit for sailing all the way around the world, when really ONLY his crew made it?

• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Jacques Cartier

Who discovered a route to the India by sailing around Africa?

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Henry Hudson
• Henry the Navigator
• Vasco da Gama

Who figured out that Columbus actually discovered a "New World," and not the Indies after all?

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• John Cabot
• Henry Hudson