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WorksheetsExplorers Ch. 3 Lesson 2 & 3
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
An Italian explorer who made voyages to South America and realized that this was not Asia, but a totally new land
John Cabot
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Amerigo Vespucci
A Spanish explorer who reached the ocean to the "west" and discovered...but did not name... the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Martin Luther
John Cabot
an agreement between countries about peace, trade or other matters
isthmus
cost
treaty
North America and South America were named after this explorer
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
an Italian explorer, Giovanni Caboto, who explored the "sterile land" of Canada and Newfoundland for the English
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot
Fernando Magellan
This explorer named the Pacific Ocean
John Cabot
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Pacific means ___________
great water
private
peaceful
a Portuguese explorer who led an expedition to sail west across the Pacific Ocean to Asia AND he named the ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
a narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas
treaty
conquistador
isthmus
the Spanish explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth and became the first to set foot in the United States
Hernando Cortes
Juan Ponce de Leon
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Florida means __________
flowery
from the ocean
youth
This Spanish explorer fought the Aztecs and told of a golden city
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando Cortez
Hernando de Soto
a sum of money given to do something
treaty
grant
conquistador
a religious teacher sent by a church to spread its religion
conquistador
reform
missionary
a Spanish soldier or conqueror in the Americas during the early 1500s.
missionary
reform
conquistador
a water supply that supposedly made old people young forever
isthmus
Fountain of Youth
Counter-Reformation
a change for the better
reform
treaty
missionary
Spanish explorer who searched for the golden cities of the Aztecs but never found them.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Martin Luther
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Francisco Pizarro
Martin Luther
German priest who called for reforms or changes in the Catholic Church
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Martin Luther
This Spanish explorer was one of the first to see the Mississippi river and explore the southeastern United States. He landed near Tampa Bay.
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando de Soto
Martin Luther
The efforts that the Catholic Church used to try to keep power...like burning books that went against its teachings.
conquistador
isthmus
Counter-Reformation
