Early Explorers of California

This Spanish soilder discovered California in 1542. Who was he?

• Hernan Cortes

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo

• Ponce de Leon

Sebastian Vizcaino sailed the southern California coast from 1602 - 1603 and is credited for naming San Diego and other landmarks. He is also remembered for_____________________>

• discovering Hawaii and forming alliances with native tribes

• visiting Easter Island and conquering indigenous people

• sailing up the Rio Grande and creating a settlement

• producing accurate maps used by sailors for over one hundred years

Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer who was the first person to

• sail around the world on his own boat

• draft an accurate map of the Pacific Ocean and its islands

• sail for the Queen of England

• be buried at sea

Captain James Cook was an English explorer, navigator and mapmaker who___________________________________.

• explored many of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii and Easter Island

• found a water passage near the tip of South America to go from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans

• sailed around the tip of Africa to reach Asia

• built his own ships

Heran Cortes took advantage of the Aztec of Mexico by ________________________.

• paying huge amounts of gold to the chief

• allowing them to mistake him for Quetzalcoatl, a returning god

• ambushing them at night while the tribe was asleep

• sneaking in undetected using underwater breathing tools

San Diego was an ideal bay for Cabrillo's fleet because it ____________________________.

• deep enough for large boats

• protected from violent storms

• Both answers

Conquistadors were Spanish Soldiers who ___________________________.

• explored new lands

• conquered native inhabitants

• settled the land for future countryman

• all of the above

___________________________ sailed the southern California coast in 1602 - 1603 and named San Diego, Santa Catalina Island, the Santa Barbara Channel, and Monterey Bay.

• Sir Francis Drake

• Hernan Cortes

• Sebastian Vizcanio

• Vitus Bering

______________________ made three trips to the Pacific Ocean and explored and mapped the North American coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.

• Hernan Cortes

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Vitus Bering

• Captain James Cook

_____________________ anchored near San Francisco, named the surround land, and claimed it for the English.

• Sir Francis Drake

• Hernan Cortes

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Vitus Bering