European Explorers

Check all that apply: What are the reasons for European exploration?

• Resources

• Faster route to Asia

• More Land

• Make slaves

Who were the first Europeans in North America?

• Paleo-Indians

• Vikings

• English

• French

This person was an explorer hired by Spain to search for a faster sea route to Asia in 1492, but landed in the Caribbean island.

• Lief Erickson

• Catherine the Great

• Christopher Columbus

• Pone de Leon

This person claimed Newfoundland Canada for England in 1497.

• Ponce de Leon

• John Cabot

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Jaques Cartier

Was a very popular explorer who discovered Columbus was wrong ab out landing in Asia.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Vasco de Gama

• John Cabot

• Hernan Cortes

True or False: Christopher Columbus died knowing he discovered a "New World"

• True

• False

This explorer was the first to reach the Pacific Ocean through the New World by crossing the Isthmus of Panama

• Vasco Nunez de Balbo

• Hernan Cortes

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Robert de La Salle

The French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River and claimed Canada for France.

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

This Spanish explorer once was the governor of Puerto Rico, and is most known for searching for the Fountain of Youth.

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Christopher Columbus

• Robert de La Salle

• John Cabot

Who named America?

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespuccis

• Leif Erikson

• Francisco Vasquez de Cornado