3.21 Identify the routes and contributions of early explorers of the Americas, including: Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci.

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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.


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