European Explorers

Question 1

Portugal; Voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa.

Answer 1

Prince Henry “the Navigator”

Question 2

Portugal; The first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa

Answer 2

Bartholomew Diaz

Question 3

Portugal; Fully rounded the Cape of Good Hope AND accessed spices in India

Answer 3

Vasco da Gama

Question 4

Portugal; Discovered Brazil in 1500

Answer 4

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Question 5

Portugal; Took over the city of Malacca in 1511; wiped many Muslims out of South and Southeast Asia

Answer 5

Afonso de Albuquerque

Question 6

Spain; Led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century

Answer 6

Hernando Cortes

Question 7

Spain; Opened the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

Portugal and Spain; Demonstrated to Europeans that the New World was not Asia but a previously unknown fourth continent

Answer 8

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 9

Spain; The Magellan expedition
Finding the Strait of Magellan
First European Pacific Ocean crossing

Answer 9

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 10

Spain; Expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru

Answer 10

Francisco Pizarro

Question 11

England; Discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland

Answer 11

John Cabot

Question 12

France; Discovered St. Lawrence River; Searching for a new sea route around North America to East Asia

Answer 12

Jacques Cartier

Question 13

England; Explored the Hudson Bay; Lower Hudson Valley named in his honor

Answer 13

Henry Hudson