Early European Explorers

Sailed for Spain and "Discovered" the New World for Europeans.

• De Gama

• Verrazzano

• Columbus

• Cabot

Named Florida and searched for the Fountain of Youth

• De Gama

• Ponce De Leon

• Columbus

• Cabot

Explored Mexico and Conquered the Aztecs

• Cortes

• Ponce De Leon

• Columbus

• Verrazzanno

Credited for being 1st European to land in North America and claimed land for England

• Cartier

• Ponce De Leon

• Columbus

• Cabot

Explored Peru and conquered the Incas

• Ponce de Leon

• Hudson

• Pizarro

• Cartier

English sailor searched for the Northwest Passage. A river and a bay are named for him.

• Hudson

• Cabot

• Cortes

• Columbus

Explorer who named and claimed Canada for France

• Cabot

• Hudson

• Cartier

• Cortes

His crew completed the circumnavigation of the globe

• Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

• Cortes

• Magellan

Who created a school for navigation? He brought shipbuilders, mapmakers, and sailing instructors to education sailors.

• John Cabot

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

Circumnavigate means

• Sail or travel in circles

• Sail or travel across the earth

• sail or travel from one point to another point

• sail or travel all the way around something