Vocab Age of Exploration

4. a portagees noble man that sailed the sea and had amission to reach india
7. was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada
8. was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America.
9. , french explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World.
10. became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa
11. was an English navigator and explorer who set out to find either a northeast passage “by the North Pole to Japan and China” or a similar northwest passage.

1. conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America
2. was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
3. french Jesuit missionary explorer who, with Louis Jolliet, travelled down the Mississippi River and reported the first accurate data on its course.
5. navigator and explorer for France who Verrazzano, was the first European to sight New York and Narragansett bays.
6. He encouraged the growth of Portuguese exploration,
8. (or Giovanni Caboto, as he was known in Italian) was an Italian explorer and navigator who may have developed the idea of sailing westward to reach the riches of Asia