3.21 Identify the routes and contributions of early explorers of the Americas, including: Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci.
Explorers for Spain
1. Christopher Columbus 2. Amerigo Vespucci 3. Ferdinand Magellan 4. Hernando De Soto
Christopher Columbus
Upon returning home, was treated like a hero.
Explorers for Spain: Whose missing? 1. Christopher Columbus 2. Magellan 3. De Soto 4. ?
Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
first person to lead an expedition that traveled around the globe was
Hernando de Soto
returned to Spain in 1536, and was granted the rights to conquer Florida. They spent four years searching for gold and silver
Hernando de Soto
spent four years searching for gold and silver, exploring Florida, and brutally interacting with native societies, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, Appalachians, and Choctaws. De Soto died during the explorations.
Primary reason Europeans were exploring the Americas
valuable goods
Amerigo Vespucci
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
America was named for him in 1507, when a mapmaker printed the first map that used the name America for the New World.
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer who also sailed for Spain. He led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth.
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Christopher Columbus
Route: see resources (Spain, San Salvador, Cuba, Hispaniola)
major achievement of Hernando De Soto
He explored the Southeast and Mississippi River
Christopher Columbus
He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were separate from the continent of Asia.
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer whose expeditions were sponsored by Spain's King Ferdinand.
Ferdinand Magellan
He named the Pacific Ocean (the name means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean). The voyage lasted almost three years. Only one ship made it back to Seville, carrying only 18 of the original 270 crew members. He was killed towards the end of the voyage, in the Philippines, during a battle with the natives
Vespucci's major contribution
Europeans began to understand that the Americas were new continents and not part of Asia
Hernando de Soto (de Soto's March)
First European to cross the Mississippi River
Ferdinand Magellan
He discovered a passage between the Atlantic to the Pacific that was named the Strait of Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
On his first expedition (sailing for Spain, 1499-1500). On this trip, Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, thinking it was part of Asia. On his second expedition (sailing for Portugal, 1501-02) he mapped some of the eastern coast of South America, and came to realize that it was not part of Asia, but a New World.
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.
Amerigo Vespucci
discovered: Amazon River, Orinoco River, South America, Portugal
Christopher Columbus
wanted to find East Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean in three ships (Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria). He set sail in August, 1492 and first spotted land about two months later. It was a small island in the Bahamas that Columbus would name San Salvador. He met natives there that he called Indians because he was convinced that he had landed on islands off the coast of East Asia. He also visited other islands in the Caribbean in his subsequent voyages, such as Cuba and Hispaniola. Columbus left 43 men behind on the island to start up an outpost.
