Early Explorers

4. where most people lived in poverty and did not travel
6. Dias and da Gama sailed for this country
8. Once Europeans knew you could sail around the whole world, they started looking for a shorter route called the ______ passage.
9. Cartier names the area he found for France _______.
10. Cartier sailed for this country
14. Hernan Cortez was able to take down the Aztecs with the help of this disease.
19. The age of ________ came after the Middle Ages
20. Portugees explorer who found that you could sail around Africa
21. English man who sailed for the Dutch and claimed land for them in the New World
22. Hudson sailed for this country

1. French explorers named the area they claimed in the New World ______.
2. The Spanish sent Columbus and his men on 3 ships, the Nina, the ____, and the Santa Maria.
3. The French got rich after selling _____ fur
5. Portugees explorer who found the first water route to Asia
7. Cabot named the area he found for England ______.
11. Italian man who sailed for England and claimed the first land for England in the New World
12. Cabot sailed for this country
13. Spanish conquistador who took down the Aztecs
15. Cortez and Columbus sailed for this country
16. Italian man who sailed for Spain and was the first to find the New World
17. French explorer who founded the St. Lawerence River
18. Besides conquering, Cortez also was on a mission to find _____.