Voyages of Exploration

Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope

• Vasco Da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Magellan

Convinced Ferdinand and Isabella, rulers of Spain, to fund a voyage across the Atlantic.

• Magellan

• Vasco Da Gama

• Columbus

• Cartier

Was the first explorer to circumnavigate (sail around the world)

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Da Gama

• Magellan

In 1534 set sail from France heading due west, ultimately claiming land in Gaspe Bay

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Dias

A Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, ultimately ending up in the southwest tip of India.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

Has a Bay named after him and went missing after his crew mutinied against him.

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

Set sail from Spain in three ships named Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.

• Christopher Cartier

• Christopher Columbus

• Christopher Hudson

• Christopher Dias

A Portuguese explorer who sailed along the African coast staking claim to different locations by placing stone markers.

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

Started his voyage with over 270 men but only returned with 17.

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• Michellin

• Magellan

True or False: It was common for fewer than half of the sailors to survive the voyage.

• True

• False