Explorers

Leif Eriksson was a ________ explorer.

• Spanish
• English
• French
• Viking

Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration.

• Prince Henry

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain. He was also responsible for spreading catholicism to the natives of the New World.

• Christopher Columbus

• Batholomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Portuguese explorer that rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa.

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

Spanish Explorer who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold but was unsuccessful. He is credited with being the first to discover the midwestern US.

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Hernando de Soto

• Hernando Cortez

• Juan Ponce De Leon

First to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the world.

• Christopher Columbus

• Sir Francis Drake

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortez

Searched for the Fountain of Youth but found Florida instead.

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernando Cortez

• Hernando de Soto

• Jacque Cartier

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and built Mexico City.

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernando Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Prince Henry

• Hernando de Soto

• Juan Ponce de Leon

An English explorer who explored for the Dutch. He claimed the Hudson River around present day New York and called it New Netherland. He also had the Hudson Bay named for him.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Prince Henry

• Henry Hudson

• Juan Ponce de Leon