European Explorers

explored NY area for the Dutch

• H. Cortes

• F. Pizarro

• H. Hudson

• Montezuma

claimed what is now Newfoundland for England

• Cabot

• H. Cortes

• Champlain

• Hudson

explored the St. Lawrence River for France and set up a trading post at Quebec

• A Vespucci

• H. Hudson

• Cabot

• Champlain

newly discovered continents were named after him by a German mapmaker

• Montezuma

• F. Pizarro

• Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

sent to America to convert Natives to Christianity

• Missionary

• Montezuma

• H. Hudson

• F. Pizarro

defeated the Incas in Peru: claimed the land for Spain

• Cabot

• F. Pizarro

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Cortes

Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs

• Cabot

• Champlain

• F. Pizarro

• H. Cortes

discovered the first all water route to Asia (around Africa)

• Magellan

• H. Hudson

• Vasco da Gama

• missionary

Aztec ruler

• Montezuma

• F. Pizarro

• H. Cortes

• Champlain

his crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe

• Cabot

• H. Hudson

• Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci