Early North American Explorers

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Across
  1. 1. passage Europeans hoped to find a _________ _______ from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean (so they could buy and sell goods in Asia without passing through the Ottoman Turk Empire).
  2. 6. _____ explorers tried to find a northeast passage north of Russia, but the ice was too thick.
  3. 7. _____ ______ was a daring sailor hired by the Dutch East India Company to find a Northwest Passage.
  4. 9. When making a map of the New World in 1538, ________ Mercator used Martin Waldseemueller's 1507 map and gave the name America to both the northern and southern continents of the New World.
  5. 13. Ponce de Leon is most famous for searching for the ________ __ _____.
  6. 15. Hernando de Soto and his men searched for the lost cities of gold in what would become the American _________.
  7. 17. _________ ________ sailed from Europe to Asia by sailing south around South America.
  8. 22. Cabeza de Vaca wrote a ____ about his travels after surviving a shipwreck with Estevanico.
  9. 23. The __________ Mountains are located in Nicaragua.
  10. 24. In order to keep Native Americans from attacking him and his men, Hernando de Soto spread the rumor that he was ________, which means he can't be killed.
  11. 27. ______ __ _________ was a French explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage.
  12. 29. The owner of John Cabot's ship that Cabot used to search for the Northwest Passage in 1496 was named Richard _______.
  13. 31. ________ __ ____ was already wealthy and powerful when he chose to search for the Seven Cities of Cibola.
  14. 32. ________ is an old Norse word meaning "farthest outland."
Down
  1. 2. ___ _________ is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States.
  2. 3. Coronado and his men did not find any gold, but they did find the _____ ______.
  3. 4. Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico called the lost cities of gold the _____ ______ __ ______.
  4. 5. Today historians believe that the story of Ponce de Leon searching for the Fountain of Youth was made up by an _____ of Ponce's named Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes.
  5. 8. In Spanish the word Florida means ____ __ _______.
  6. 10. ______ __ ____ and Estevanico were told stories about lost cities of gold by Native Americans when they were shipwrecked in what would become the American southwest.
  7. 11. ____ _____ was an Italian explorer hired by King Henry VII of England to find a Northwest Passage.
  8. 12. Coronado and his men searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola in what would become the American _________.
  9. 14. While searching for the Bimini Islands, Ponce de Leon discovered the southeast American state called _______.
  10. 16. Juan _____ __ ____ was a Spanish soldier and explorer who conquered the native people of Puerto Rico.
  11. 18. In 1905 _____ Amundsen became the first person to find and sail across the Northwest Passage.
  12. 19. De Soto and his men were the first Europeans to explore along the ___________ River.
  13. 20. Francisco Vasquez de ________ read Cabeza de Vaca's book, and asked for and received permission from the Spanish king to search for the lost cities of gold (but he and his 300 men never found them).
  14. 21. The first person to use the word America for the New World was the mapmaker Martin _____________.
  15. 25. Most historians believe that America was named after _______ Vespucci.
  16. 26. _____ __ ____ sailed from Europe to India by sailing south around Africa.
  17. 28. Ponce de Leon died after being pierced by a ______ _____.
  18. 30. St. Augustine was founded ____ hundred and fifty years ago.