European Exploration

What were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land
• a way to the South Pole
• a new trade route to India by sea
• a new school in Portugal

Which was NOT a European motive for exploration?

• wealth
• religious conversion
• spread disease
• economic opportunity

Many of the first European explorers went exploring in search of gold and riches.
True or False

• True
• False

Columbus thought that he had arrived at  ___________, and therefore called the Natives he met Indians.

• Cathay
• Africa
• America
• India

Who were the major players in European exploration?

• England, Portugal, Spain
• England, Italy, Egypt
• Portugal, Spain, Sweden 
• India, France, Greece

He was born in Italy and sponsored by Spain. He landed in the Bahamas and thought he was in Asia.

• Columbus
• Balboa
• Cabot
• Hudson

He discovered the Pacific Ocean!

• Columbus
• Cabot
• de Soto
• Balboa

This Spanish explorer was the first to see the Pacific Ocean from the east

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Ferdinand Magellan

This Spanish Conquistador conquered the Aztecs in Mexico

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

This Spanish explorer's crew made it all the way around the world

• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Juan Ponce de Leon