Explorers Scavenger Hunt

I discovered that what Columbus stumbled upon wasn’t India

at all, but in fact an entirely new continent!

• Hundson

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Vasco da Gama

I was the first explorer to reach India by sailing around Africa!

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry Hudson

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

I ignored orders by my superiors to find a northeastern route to

India -- instead I tried to find a “Northwest Passage.”

• Ponce de Leon

• Vasco da Gama

• Hernan Cortes

• Henery Hudson

I stumbled upon the peninsula of Florida in my pursuit of a

mysterious “fountain of youth.”

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Ponce de Leon

While a great explorer, I am often remembered for my actions in

ending the mighty Aztec Empire.

• Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortes

• Vasco da Gama

• Francisco Pizarro

6.) It was because of me that Portugal played such an influential role

in the Age of Exploration!

• Henry the Navigator

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Vasco da Gama

In my attempt to be the first person to travel completely around

the globe, I was killed by natives in the Philippines!

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

Can you blame me for calling the people I saw “indians?” After

all, that’s where I thought I was!

• John Cabot

• Henry the Navigator

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

Like my counterpart Cortés, I am responsible for dooming a major

South American empire -- the Incas!

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Vasco da Gama

• Ponce de Leon

The mighty British Empire better thank me for discovering

Canada for them!

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Ponce de Leon