European Explorers

What Portuguese explorer travelled all the way around the Cape of Good Hope to Asia?

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolome Dias

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier

Which Spanish conquistador defeated Montezuma and the Aztecs?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

Who defeated the Incas in South America?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Henry the Navigator

• Juan Ponce de Leon

Which French explorer explored Quebec and the St. Lawrence River and a lake is named after him?

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Louis Joliet

• Jacques Marquette

What French explorer claimed land for Louis XIV and called it Louisiana?

• Jacques Cartier

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Rene-Robert LaSalle

• John Cabot

Which explorer is given credit with finding the New World?

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Leif Erikkson

Who built a school of navigation so that others could explore better?

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry the Navigator

• Leif Erikkson

________ wanted to find a Northwest Passage and claimed Newfoundland for England.

Whose crew circumnavigated the globe?

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Álvar Núňez Cabeza de Vaca

• Hernan Cortes

_________ was a sea dog who attacked Spanish ships for their treasures.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Sir Francis Drake

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher

  Columbus