1) Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa and reach India by sea. Established an important trade route from Europe to India and East Indies.  a) Vasco Nunez de Balboa b) Christopher Columbus c) Vasco da Gama d) Bartolomeu Dias 2) English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. He took Magellan’s famous route and raided Spanish ships in Peru a) Ferdinand Magellan b) Henry Hudson c) Samuel de Champlain d) Sir Francis Drake 3) A French navigator and explorer credited with naming Canada. The stones they thought were diamonds were actually pieces of quartz, and the gold was iron pyrite – better known as “fool’s gold. a) Jacques Cartier b) Prince Henry the Navigator c) James Cook d) Hernan Cortes 4) A Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas. a) Juan Ponce De Leon b) Vasco Nunez de Balboa c) Francisco Pizarro d) Ferdinand Magellan 5) A French navigator, soldier, explorer, and geographer. He helped establish settlements for the French in Canada. a) Sir Francis Drake b) Vasco da Gama c) Samuel de Champlain d) Bartolomeu Dias 6) A Spanish explorer who founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico and who is credited with being the first European to reach Florida in 1513. a) Christopher Columbus b) Ferdinand Magellan c) Hernan Cortes d) Juan Ponce de Leon 7) Prince of Portugal. He sent sailors out in search of a new route to Asia. Expeditions began the process of European colonization and the transatlantic slave trade. a) Vasco da Gama b) Bartholomeu Dias c) Prince Henry the Navigator d) Hernan Cortes 8) First to sail around the southern tip of Africa and reach the Indian Ocean in 1488. Sailed on voyages with Vasco da Gama. a) Juan Ponce De Leon b) Prince Henry the Navigator   c) Vasco da Gama   d) Bartholomeus Dias 9) A Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–1522 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation in history. a) Christopher Columbus b) Ferdinand Magellan c) Francisco Pizarro d) Hernan Cortes 10) British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Three voyages to the Pacific Ocean. a) James Cook b) Henry Hudson c) Sir Francis Drake d) Samuel de Champlain 11) English captain and navigator who discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay and sailed through parts of the Arctic on his search for a Northwest Passage to China. He failed to find his northern route to China.   a) Christopher Columbus b) Sir Francis Drake c) Henry Hudson d) James Cook 12) His first voyage started August 3, 1492 from Spain with three ships (Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria). Thought he found the Americas but he reach the Bahamas. He never reached the Americas. a) Ferdinand Magellan b) Hernan Cortes c) Francisco Pizarro d) Christopher Columbus 13) A Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–1521) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain. Defeated the Aztec Empire. He reached the Aztec leader, Montezuma, who thought he was a god and killed him. a) Francisco Pizarro b) Juan Ponce De Leon c) Hernan Cortes d) Vasco Nunez de Balboa 14) A Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. He forced the Inca leader, Atahualpa, to surrender gold and silver and then killed him. a) Ferdinand Magellan b) Juan Ponce De Leon c) Francisco Pizarro d) Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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