Age of Exploration 1

1. English navigator and explorer who, sailing three times for the English and once for the Dutch , tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean. A river, a strait, and a bay in North America are named for him.

• Henry Hudson

• Prince Henry

• Vaso de Gama

• Christopher Columbus

1. A Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River.

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Hernando de Soto

1. America was named after this Italian navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Jacques Cartier

1. Spanish explorer and conquistador who helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Jacques Marquette

• Hernando de Soto

English navigator and explorer who, sailing three times for the English and once for the Dutch , tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean. A river, a strait, and a bay in North America are named for him.

• Jacques Marquette

• Louis Joliet

• 1. Prince Henry

• Henry Hudson

The last of the Aztec emperors, who was defeated by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1520

• Montezuma II

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Vaso de Gama

• Louis Joliet

Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Louis Joliet

1. Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

• Louis Joliet

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando de Soto

• Hernan Cortes

Portuguese explorer who became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.

• Jacques Marquette

• Louis Joliet

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartolomeu Dias

1. French missionary and explorer that is best known as the first European to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

• Louis Joliet

• Jacques Marquette

• Hernando de Soto

• Bartolomeu Dias