Explorers, Inventors and Discoverers Flashcards
Venetian Who Explored Asia
Marco Polo
Norse Explorer who First Reached Greenland
Eric the Red
North Explorer who Northeast North American
Leif Erickson (Eric the Red’s son)
Flemish Cartographer
Geradus Mercator
Portugese Navigation Instructor
Henry the Navigator
First To Go Around the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
Discoverer of the New World
Christopher Columbus
Italian map maker, coined the term “new world”
Amerigo Vespucci
Portugeses Explorer and First to Reach India
Vasco Da Gama
First to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Aztec COnquerer
Hernando Cortez
Incan Conqueror and Explorer of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
Explorer of American Southwest, Search for 7 cities of gold
Francisco de Coronado
First to Set foot on US Mainland (Florida)
Ponce De Leon
Italian Explorer who discovered Newfoundland
John Cabot
John Cabot’s Son who explored the Rio De la Plata
Sebastian Cabot
Frenchman who founded Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Portuguese Discoverer of Brazil
Pedro Cabral
Portuguese Discoverer of California
Juan Cabrillo
Frenchman Who Explored the Southern Mississippi River
Sieur De La Salle
Frenchman who Explored the Length of the Mississippi
Marquette & Joliet
First To Sale into NY Harbor
Giovanni De Varrazano
Spaniard Who Discovered the Mississippi
Hernando De Soto
The Father of New France, Founded Quebec
Samuel De Champlain
German naturalist who explored the orinoco
Friedrich Humboldt
Explorer of the Gambia and Niger Rivers
Mungo Park
His Ship was the first to Sail Around the World
Ferdinand Magellan
First Englishman to Sail Around the World
Sir. Francis Drake
Dutchman who explored the pacific
Abel Tasman
Norwegian Who First Navigated Northwest Passage
Roald Amundsen
ENglishman who Discovered Australia and Hawaii
James Cook
First Englishman to Reach Australia
William Dampier
Danish Discoverer of Alaska and Namesake Strait
Vitus Bering
Explorer of Northwest Canada
Alexander Mackenzie
Discovered the Great Salt Lake
Jim Bridger
Englishman who Discovered the World’s 5th Largest Island
William Baffin
Englishman who Discovered the Source of the Nile (DIsputed)
John Speke
Speke’s Colleague, Who Spoke 29 Languages
Sir. Richard Burton
First to Reach North Pole, 1909
Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
First to Reach South Pole, 1911
Roald Amundsen
Competitor of Amundsen, Died after reaching South Pole
Robert Scott
First to Fly over South Pole
RIchard Byrd
British Explorer of the Antarctic
James Ross
Scottish Medical Missionary to Africa
David Livingstone
Man Who Found Livingstone
Henry Stanley
Explored Northern Louisiana Purchase Territory
Lewis and Clark
Explored Southern Louisiana Purchase Territory
Zebulon Pike
Machu Picchu Discoverer
Hiram Bigham