Age of Exploration (WH2)

Sailed west across the Atlantic and discovered the New World, thought he had reached India.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernando Cortez

Was Credited First to sail around the world, but it was really his crew (circumnavigate)

• Hernando Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez

• Ferdinand Magellan

Defeated the Aztecs, claimed Mexico for Spain

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez

• Francisco Pizarro

• Ferdinand Magellan

Led an expedition to Peru, conquered the Incan Empire.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernando Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

Explored Canada looking for the NW passage, discovered the St. Lawrence River.

• Jacques Cartier

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernando Cortez

• Ferdinand Magellan

Sailed to India, gave Portugal water route for Asian trade.

• Jacques Cartier

• Vasco da Gama

• Hernando Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

He started a school for navigators. He was not an explorer.

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernando Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

Circumnavigate the globe, sailed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans around the bottom of South America known as the Cape Horn route.

• Francis Drake

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator