Age of Exploration

2. French fur trader who explored the Mississippi River with Jacques Marquette.
3. Spanish explorer who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold and explored Arizona and New Mexico.
6. Spanish explorer who arrived in Florida in 1528 near Tampa Bay.
9. Spanish explorer who crossed the Mississippi River in 1541.
10. Spanish leader who founded St. Augustine in 1565.
12. French explorer who sailed along the St. Lawrence River in 1535.
15. Spanish explorer who led an expedition into the Inca Empire in Peru.
16. French explorer who followed the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico in 1682.
17. French priest who explored the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet.
18. Italian explorer sent by England in 1497 to search for a northern route to Asia.
19. French explorer who claimed Florida for France in 1562.

1. Italian explorer hired by France in 1524 to explore the North American coast.
4. Spanish explorer who survived the 1528 Florida expedition and traveled through Texas and the Southwest.
5. English explorer hired by the Dutch who explored the Hudson River in 1609 and Hudson Bay in 1610.
7. Spanish explorer who came ashore in Florida in 1513.
8. Name Ponce de León gave the territory he claimed in 1513 because it was Easter, or “Flowery Easter.”
10. Present-day country where Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire.
11. Dutch governor who bought Manhattan Island in 1626.
13. German priest whose ideas helped begin the Reformation in 1517.
14. Spanish conquistador who landed in Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire.