Explorers

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 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

He was from Italy but sailed for Spain in the year 1492

• Magellan
• Diaz
• Columbus
• Cabral

First explorer to circumnavigate the world, or shall we say, his crew was first

• Magellan
• John Glen
• Amelia Earhart
• Cortez

Although his crew sailed the entire way around the world and he died 3/4 of the way, this explorer was given credit for sailing around the world

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Dr. Scholls
• Ponce de Leon
• Coranado Magellan

Spanish Explorer who explored southeastern part of the US and the first European to reach the Mississippi River

• Hernando de Soto
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

English Explorer who discovered a famous river named after him.  Hudson Bay is what is now the state of New York.

• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Henry Hudson

Across which ocean did our explorers all sail?

• Pacific Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean

Goals of the English, French and Dutch

• Circumnavigate the world before the Spanish
• Spread Catholicism to the New World
• Find a Northwest Passage to Asia
• Create colonies in Mesoamerica

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• the trading of goods between the Old and New Worlds
• Columbus's marketplace in the New World
• The spreading of European ideas into new areas
• the successful trip around Africa to Asia