Spanish Explorers Monarchs Christopher Columbus Other Explorers Explorer Potpouri 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

America was named after him.

Amerigo Vespucci

He discovered Florida.

Ponce De Leon

Spanish Conquistador who lands in Mexico and defeats the Aztecs.

Hernan Cortez

He is the man that conquered the Incas in Peru.

Francisco Pizzaro

He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and named the body of water.

Balboa

He was the Leader of the Aztecs.

Moctezuma

The Monarch of England who encouraged and financed new expeditions The Monarch of England who encouraged and financed new expeditions. Defeated the Spanish Armada.

Queen Elizabeth

These monarchs of Spain agreed to pay for Christopher Columbus’ journeys when no one else would.

Ferdinand and Isabella

The Prince of Portugal who set up a school to encourage sea exploration.

Henry the Navigator

The monarch of England who caused conflict with his rivals by creating the Church of England.

Henry VIII

Name 2 of Christopher Columbus’ ships from his 1st Voyage.

Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria

The island that Columbus landed on first when he discovered America. .

San Salvador (Bahamas)

The Native American group that greeted Columbus and were nearly wiped out several decades later.

The Taino

Columbus brought back this to Spain in exchange for not having large amounts of gold.

Native American Slaves

Although Columbus incorrectly thought he landed in Asia, he did accurately estimate the distance between these two continents.

Europe and Asia

He and his crew are credited with being the first to sail around the World.

Magellan

Queen Elizabeth to raid Spanish ships returning He was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to raid Spanish ships returning from North America with riches.

Francis Drake

French Explorer who founded Quebec City, Canada French Explorer who founded Quebec City, Canada. He was also called the Father of New France.

Champlain

Italian, while sailing for England, who explored the mainland of North America and the first to search for the Northwest Passage.

John Cabot

While sailing for the Dutch, this Englishman explored New York and the river named after him.

Henry Hudson

Polio, Measles, Typhus, Smallpox Of the following diseases NOT brought to the New World by the Europeans: Polio, Measles, Typhus, Smallpox

Polio

The Three G’s for the motivation for Exploration.

Gold, God, Glory, Greed

Economic system in the New World started by the Portuguese and used by the Spanish in which Native Americans were enslaved and worked in harsh conditions on plantations..

Encomienda System

This country’s trade route to Asia during the 1400’s went south around the tip of Africa.

Portugal

Two of the three things that was important to the Europeans after the Crusades.

Coffee, tea, spices, silk