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Unit 2, Activity 2, Explorers’ Chart
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~ Chapter 6 Explorer’s Chart
* Use notes, web, &/or chapters 3 & 4 in text book
Name of
Explorer
Bartholomeu Dias
Christopher
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
John Cabot
Vasco da Gama
Vasco de Balboa
Juan Ponce de
Leon
Hernan Cortes
Ferdinand
Magellan
Giovanni da
Verranzano
Francisco Pizarro
Jacques Cartier
Hernando DeSoto
Francisco
Coronado
Samuel de
Champlain
Henry Hudson
Robert LaSalle
Year(s)
Nationality/
Sailed for this
country
Area(s) Claimed
Reason Behind
Exploration
Unit 2, Activity 2, Explorers’ Chart
Name of
Explorer
Year(s)
Nationality/Sailed
for this country
Area(s) Claimed
Reason Behind
Exploration
Searching for water route
to India
Bartholomeu Dias
1487-88
Portuguese
Christopher
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
1492-1504
Italian/ Spain
1497-1503
John Cabot
1497-98
Italian/Spain and
Portugal
Italian/ France
Vasco da Gama
1498
Portuguese
Vasco de Balboa
1513
Spanish
Juan Ponce de
Leon
Hernan Cortes
1513
Spanish
First European to
round the Cape of
Good Hope
West Indies/Caribbean
Islands
Sailed to West Indies
and South America
Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, and Labrador
First to travel to India
around Africa
Led expedition and
found Pacific Ocean
Florida
1519-21
Spanish
Mexico
Ferdinand
Magellan
Giovanni da
Verranzano
Francisco Pizarro
1520
Portuguese/Spain
1523
Italian/France
1523-35
Spanish
Strait of Magellan,
California
New York Bay and
Narrangasett Bay
Peru
Jacques Cartier
1534-42
French
St. Lawrence River
Hernando DeSoto
1539-41
Spanish
Francisco
Coronado
Samuel de
Champlain
Henry Hudson
1540-42
Spanish
American Southeast
and Mississippi River
American Southwest
1603-1616
French
1609-11
Robert LaSalle
1682
English/Dutch East
India Company
French
St. Lawrence River to
Lake Champlain
Hudson Strait
Great Lakes,
Mississippi River and
Gulf of Mexico
Searching for shorter
route to India
Exploration of new
continents
Searching for a Northwest
Passage to India
Searching for water route
to India for trade
Exploration of New World
Looking for the Fountain
of Youth in Florida
Conquered Aztecs in
Mexico
Commanded first globecircling voyage
Searched for Northwest
Passage
Conquered Incas of Peru
Conquered new lands for
France
Exploring New World for
Spain
Explored New World in
search for gold
Explored North America
for France
Claimed Hudson River
area for the Dutch
Claimed lands for France