Exploration - Quiz 3

He discovered a water route from Portugal to India around the tip of Africa

• Vasco Da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Henry The Navigator

He discovered a the St. Lawrence River and established a fort near Quebec

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Henry The Navigator

He defeated the Aztecs in 1521

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernan Cortes

• Henry The Navigator

He discovered Newfoundland while trying to find the "Northwest Passage"

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernan Cortes

• John Cabot

He discovered a river and bay that are now named after him

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Hernan Cortes

• Henry Hudson

He conquered the Incas

• Vasco Da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry Hudson

He discovered the peninsula of Florida while searching for the "fountain of youth"

• Magellan

• Ponce De Leon

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry Hudson

He started the first school of navigation

• Henry The Navigator

• Ponce De Leon

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry Hudson

Remembered as the first person to circumnavigate the globe

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Ponce De Leon

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry Hudson

Italian explorer that convinced the King and Queen of Spain he could find a water route to Asia

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Ponce De Leon

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson