Explorers

Question 1

An English explorer who attempted to find the northwest passage

Answer 1

Henry Hudson

Question 2

Spanish explorer who wanted to find a fountain of youth

Answer 2

Jaun Ponce de leon

Question 3

Italian Explorer who found parts of North America first since the Norse vikings

Answer 3

John Cabot

Question 4

An icelandic explorer who first landed in north america

Answer 4

leif erikson

Question 5

The Spanish explorer who crossed the isthmus of Panama to get to the pacific

Answer 5

Vasco de balboa

Question 6

An Italian explorer who sailed for Spain to find a western passage to India but found central America instead in 1492

Answer 6

Christopher Columbus

Question 7

An Italian explorer who sailed for Portugal and found south America and called it the “new world” and named the continent after himself

Answer 7

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 8

A Portuguese explorer who was first to circumnavigate the world in 1519

Answer 8

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 9

Crossed the Indian ocean and reached india

Answer 9

Vasco da gama

Question 10

sailed around the cape of good hope

Answer 10

Bartolomeu

Question 11

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Answer 11

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Question 12

Defeated the Inca Empire in 1532

Answer 12

Francisco Pizzaro

Answer 13

Jacques Cartier

Answer 14

Giovanni Da Verrazano