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European Explorers
European Explorers and Exploration Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Large Spanish ships used for traveling and transporting goods, usually very heavily fortified. | Galleon |
| Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag who is credited with the first European to discover the West Indies. | Christopher Columbus |
| Led a Spanish expedition to circumnavigate the globe but was killed in the Philippines. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Sailed under the Spanish flag and realized the land discovered by Columbus was not Asia, but a “New World”. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| English explorer who discovered the Hudson Bay. | Henry Hudson |
| French explorer who navigated the St. Lawrence River. | Jacques Cartier |
| Became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe. | Sir Francis Drake |
| Portuguese explorer who sailed past the Cape of Good Hope all the way to India. | Vasco de Gama |
| Spanish Conquistador given credit with conquering the Aztecs | Hernan Cortes |
| Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Incas. | Franciso Pizzaro |
| Term which means to travel all the way around something. | Circumnavigation |
| The transfer of goods, people and cultures back to Europe in return for diseases the indigenous people had no immunity to fight against. | Columbian Exchange |
| French explorer who founded Quebec and mapped the Great Lakes. | Samuel de Champlain |
| Crossed the Isthmus of Panama on foot becoming the first European to claim the Pacific Ocean for Spain. | Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
| Spanish explorer who explored Florida for treasure and land. | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| Name given to Spanish soldiers/explorers. | Conquistador |
| Home of the Aztec empire which sits on current day Mexico City. | Tenochtitlan |
| Treaty between Spain and Portugal which divided up the New World. | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| English explorer who reached Newfoundland and established land claims for England | John Cabot |
| French explorer who traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. | Robert de La Salle |
| Term which means connected with the sea and navigation. | Maritime |
| Fast moving Portuguese ships known for their triangular sails. | Caravel |
| Portuguese explorer who established a school of navigation in Sagres. | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| Portuguese explorer who sailed to the southern tip of Africa and named it the Cape of Storms. | Bartolomeu Dias |
| Founded in 1602 as the world’s first megacorporation that funded exploration. | Dutch East India Company |
| Inexpensive, merchant going vessel designed by the Dutch. | Fluyt |
| Science of Mapmaking. | Cartography |
| Dutch explorer who recorded the first European landing on Australia. | Willem Janszoon |
| Dutch explorer who explored the Arctic looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia. | Willem Barentsz |
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todd.moore