Chapter 3 Review Quiz - Explorers

An Italian explorer who made voyages to South America and realized that this was not Asia, but a totally new land

• John Cabot

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

A Spanish explorer who reached the ocean to the "west" and discovered...but did not name... the Pacific Ocean

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Martin Luther

• John Cabot

an agreement between countries about peace, trade or other matters

• isthmus

• cost

• treaty

North America and South America were named after this explorer

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

an Italian explorer, Giovanni Caboto, who explored the "sterile land" of Canada and Newfoundland for the English

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

• Fernando Magellan

This explorer named the Pacific Ocean and made a voyage all the way around the world with one ship.

• John Cabot

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

Pacific means ___________

• great water

• private

• peaceful

a Portuguese explorer who led an expedition to sail west across the Pacific Ocean to Asia AND he named the ocean

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

a narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas

• treaty

• conquistador

• isthmus

the Spanish explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth and became the first to set foot in the United States

• Hernando Cortes

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado