exploration and discovery

The voyages of Bartholomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama were the reslut of

• Portugals desire to find an all sea trade route to asia

• england wanting to get land

• france discovering florida

discovered an all water route from Europe to India

• Vasco da Gamma

• John Cabot

• Balboa

who reached the Pacific Ocean and was the first European to cross the isthmus of Panama

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

Who charted the coast of Newfoundland?

• John Cabot

• Batolomeu Dias

• Ponce de leon

Who primarily explored the south American coast?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ponce de leon

• Vasco de Gama

Who explored the North American mainland and began looking for gold in the Caribbean Islands, unsuccessful he headed to the east coast of Florida, through the Florida Keys and the gulf of Mexico?

• Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

Who was the first European explorer to map the Gulf coast of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. He also established a settlement in Florida?

• Hernando de Soto

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Who was the first European to captain a ship that sailed around the world?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando de Soto

• John Cabot

Who is known for looking for the Northwest Passage, but instead explored the New York Bay, creating maps that enabled the colonization of North America?

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• Ponce de Leon