Early Explorers

Match the following words to their definition.

• A person who looks for new land.

• route

• A reason

• motive

• a special way of doing something

• confederacy

• a formal agreement to work together

• custom

• The way you get somewhere

• explorer

What was the motive for the early explorers to start sailing the Atlantic?

• A. for more land

• B. to find a water route to Asia

• C. for herbs, spices and gold

• D. all of the above

The lives of the Taino people​ (a)   after the ​ (b)   came to Hispaniola. Many of the ​ (c)   people died from ​ (d)   the Spanish brought.

• changed
• Spaniards
• Taino
• diseases
• moved
• French

Using the map pick which country LaSalle sailed for in 1684

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

Who discovered the Hudson River?

• Henry Hudson

• Sir Francis Drake

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci