Explorers

1st to go as far as the Mississippi River

• Hernando DeSoto

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Robert LaSalle

1st to realize he had found a New World and America is named after him

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Eric the Red

• Leif Erikson

Viking Explorer who reached the mainland of America

• Prince Henry

• Henry Hudson

• Eric the Red

• Leif Erikson

Dutch Explorer that founded New Amsterdam and has a river named after him

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Robert LaSalle

Angry man who tricked people by naming the place he explored Greenland

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Prince Henry

• Eric the Red

French Explorer who founded the Mississippi River Valley and named it Louisiana in honor of the King of France

• Robert LaSalle

• John Cabot

• Prince Henry

• Henry Hudson

1st to sail all the way around the world

• Christopher Columbus

• Eric the Red

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Leif Erikson

 English Explorer that landed in Newfoundland, 

but thought he was in Asia

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Robert LaSalle

Is given credit for discovering the New World although he did not know it

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Eric the Red

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

wasn’t an actual explorer but created a school for explorers to learn how to navigate the world

• Prince Henry

• Robert LaSalle

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot