Explorers

sailed for England and landed in present day Canada

• Cartier

• Cabot

• Cortes

• Coronado

an English explorer who reached Greenland and explored a river in what is now New York.

• Cartier

• Varrazano

• Hudson

• Cortes

was an Italian sailor and discovered that the world was larger than what people actually thought

• Magellan

• Cortes

• Balboa

• Vespucci

sailed for France and found the St. Lawrence River and claimed it for France

• Cartier

• Hudson

• Verrazano

• Coronado

a map maker that named America after Vespucci

• Walters

• Walmartseemuller

• Waldseemuller

• Columbus

a Spanish conquistador who attacked and defeated the Incas

• Pizarro

• Coronado

• Cartier

• Waldseemuller

was a Spanish explorer who crossed Panama and finally reached the Pacific Ocean

• Magellan

• Balboa

• Cartier

• Cortes

named the Pacific Ocean and his sailors were able to finally sail around the world

• Mackintosh

• Martin

• Molbley

• Magellan

a Spanish conquistador who looked for the cities of gold and claimed land in the southwestern part of the United States for Spain

• Cortes

• Coronado

• Balboa

• Columbus

looked for the cities of gold and attacked and defeated the Aztecs

• Coronado

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Magellan