Age of Exploration

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• Columbia Exchange

• entrepreneurs

• Northwest Passage

• Hernando de Soto

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Francisco Pizarro

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

• entrepreneurs

• Northwest Passage

• conquistadors

• San Salvador

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).

• Vaso Nunez de Balboa

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Francisco Pizarro

• Juan Ponce de Leon

A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Sought by navigators since the 16th century.

• Northwest Passage

• Columbia Exchange

• St. Lawrence River

• Hernando de Soto

mutinied

• Hudson Bay

• benefit

• rebelled

• the Netherlands

large sums of money

• reforms

• benefits

• missionaries

• grants

Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth."

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Juan Ponce de Leon

A trip taken with the goal of exploring.

• expedition

• San Salvador

• benefit

• technology

Two Frenchmen who explored the North American coast and the St. Lawrence Seaway for France.

• Coronado and Cortes

• Columbus and Cabot

• Verrazano and Cartier

• Martin Luther and King Ferdinand