Unit 9 Test - Discovery

Portugese explorer who led a school for navigators

• Magellan

• Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

• Prince Henry the Navigator

Portuguese explorer who was the first to round the tip of Africa

• Magellan

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco de Gama

• John Cabot

Portuguese explorer who established a trade route to India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco da Gama

• Magellan

• Columbus

Explorer sponsored by Spain who believed he could reach China and Japan by sailing west, which led to the discovery of America

• John Cabot

• Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Henry Hudson

European explorer who circumnavigated the globe

• Jacques Cartier

• Montezuma

• Magellan

• Samuel de Champlain

Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernando Cortes

• Montezuma

• Columbus

Conquistador who conquered the Incas of Peru

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco da Gama

• Hernando Cortes

• Magellan

French explorer who made three voyages to what is today Canada in search of the Northwest Passage

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Samuel de Champlain

• Jacques Cartier

French explorer who colonized Canada; known as the "Father of New France"

• Samuel de Champlain

• Jacques Cartier

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

Dutch explorer who gave the Dutch a claim to modern-day New York

• Columbus

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier