Early European Explores.

Which is not one of the 3 Gs

• Grain

• Glory

• God

• Gold

Henry the Navigator

• An Italian Captain that circumnavigated the globe.

• Sponsored schools for the study of advances in his country's Navy

• Traveled to India several years after Columbus discovered America.

• First European to reach Brazil

He was from England and sailed for the Netherlands (Dutch) and England.

He was trying to find the Northwest Passage.

He was mutinied

• Hernando de Soto

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

Italian sponsored by Spain

4 voyages

Explored the Caribbean

Established Colonies for Spain.

• Cristopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

Italian Sponsored by England

Wanted to find the Northwest Passage

Traveled to the coast of Canada and claimed much of Canada for England

• Cristopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

Spaniard sponsored by Spain

Sailed to present-day Panama in Central America.

Crossed the dense mountains and jungles and was the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean

He married the daughter of a local chief.

• Cristopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

Spanish explorer

He explored Peru with Francisco Pizarro.

He explored the southeast United States from Tampa Bay to South Carolina and was the first European to cross the Mississippi River.

• Cristopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando de Soto

  First European to see the Pacific Ocean

• Cristopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando de Soto

First European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea

• Cristopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando de Soto

What is the Northwest Passage?

• A non-existent water route to China

• A water route to China first used by the Vikings

• Overland route to India

• A water route to the Pacific.