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Explorer Study Guide

8th Grade Honors Social Studies, Mr. Bontrager

Goals and Claim to FameExplorer and Sponsor
Goals: Spreading Christianity to China CTF: He wrote a book and inspired many explorations Marco Polo, Italy
Goals: Finding a water route to Asia and giving Portugal a monopoly on spice trade CTF: He helped open trade routes to Asia Bartholomeu Dias, Portugal
Goals: Finding a route to the East Indies without going around Africa CTF: He discovered America accidentally Christopher Columbus, Spain
Goals: Find a water route to India and making a route for trade CTF: He was the first to sail around the tip of Africa to reach India Vasco Da Gama, Portugal
Goals: Finding out whether Christopher Columbus's New World is Asia or a new continent CTF: He was the first to find the fourth continent of America Amerigo Vespucci, Spain
Goals: Finding a westward route to Asia and earn his country land, resources, and trade CTF: He reached America and established British claim to India John Cabot, England
Goals: Getting rich with gold and finding another country to fund him CTF: Saw the Pacific by crossing the Isthmus of Panama Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spain
Goals: Finding the island of Bimini and the fountain of youth CTF: Founded the colony of Florida Juan Ponce de Leon, Spain
Goals: Finding a route to the Spice Islands to break the Portugese monopoly CTF: He was the first person to circumnavigate the world Ferdinand Magellan, Spain
Goals: Gold, fame, and spreading Christianity CTF: Lead his country's conquest of the Aztecs and claimed Mexico Hernan Cortes, Spain
Goals: Becoming rich, and showing other countries his country's power CTF: Founding Lima and conquering the Incas Francisco Pizarro, Spain
Goals: Finding the Northwest Passage CTF: He discovered a river and a bay Henry Hudson, England and the Dutch
Goals: Exploration, mapping, colonization, trade, and finding the Northwest Passage CTF: He founded Quebec and mapped a lake Samuel de Champlain, France
Goals: Finding the seven cities of gold, spread Christianity CTF: He was the first to see the Grand Canyon Francisco Coronado, Spain
Goals: Finding silver and gold and settling in La Florida CTF: He was the first European to discover the Mississippi River Hernando de Soto, Spain
Goals: Finding riches and the Northwest Passage CTF: He named the present-day Canada and claimed the land for his country Jacques Cartier, France
Goals: Distracting the Spanish by stealing their treasures CTF: He was the second person to circumnavigate the world and claimed Oregon territory Sir Francis Drake, England
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