Vasco Nunez Balboa

While traveling across the Isthmus of Panama, Balboa climbed a mountain and discovered ____________________.

• another colony.

• more explorers looking for riches.

• the Pacific Ocean.

• the Hudson River

What was Balboa searching for?

• perfume and silver

• silk and spices

• pearls and gold

• a route to Asia

How did Balboa die?

• gun shot wound

• beheaded

• ran over by a bus

• disease

Some of the obstacles Balboa faced were.

• His boat was to small for him to load his pigs.

• Bad weather

• His crew mutiny

• He had a leaky ship, he came across many Native American tribes and had many battles with them.

Who sponsored Balboa's exploration?

• King Ferdinand II

• King of Pop

• King Francis I

• King Henry VII