Who is that Explorer?

This explorers was the first European to "discover" North America.

• Leif Ericson

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Marco Polo

This explorer was responsible for the "Columbian Exchange" of food, animals, and diseases.

• Leif Ericson

• Balboa

• Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish explorer founded the first permanent European settlement in North America. It was named St. Augustine.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Pedro Menendez de Aviles

• Jacques Cartier

This explorer was part of an expedition that circumnavigated the world.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

This explorer was searching for the "Fountain of Youth" and claimed Florida for Spain.

• Pedro Menendez de Aviles

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Vasco da Gama

The book about his travels in the Far East encouraged many explorers.

• Marco Polo

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

He was on a quest for gold at any cost and he destroyed the Aztec nation.

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Leif Eriksson

• Hernan Cortes

Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle is known for ?

• Discovering South America

• Claiming the Pacific Ocean for Spain

• Claiming the Mississippi River and Great Lakes for France

• Claiming Canada for France

This explorer started a "School of Navigation" but rarely went on voyages himself.

• Henry Hudson

• Vasco Da Gama

• Prince Henry

• John Cabot

This explorer made it all the way around the tip of Africa to India!

• Hernan Cortes

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry Hudson

• Prince Henry