Explorer Accomplishment Quiz.
European explorer routes. European Exploration WebQuest. Learn about Christopher Columbus. European Exploration Book rubric - H9X653. Explorer ThinkQuest. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued.
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-1626) was a Spanish conquistador who established the colony of New Mexico for Spain and became New Mexico's first governor. Oñate, the son of a conquistador who made a fortune in silver, was married to a granddaughter of Hernán Cortés. In 1595, Oñate requested that he be sent to conquer and rule New Mexico, search for treasure (especially the legendary silver treasure of Quivira), and bring Christianity to the local Indians.
After governmental approval, Oñate left for New Mexico in January, 1598, with 400 settlers and soldiers (and their livestock). In July 1598, the expedition crossed the Rio Grande at El Paso. In 1601, Oñate led an expedition to the Great Plains of America that tried, unsuccessfully, to find the legendary silver of Quivira (thought to be in what is now central Kansas, east of Salina). Go to a printable read-and-answer worksheet on Onate. New World Exploration. Explorer Project. Read through all of the directions below before beginning your research, poster and project. Refer to the evaluation page as you complete each step to make sure that you are completing the assignments correctly. 1.
Each of you in the group must choose one of the following explorers to research for your poster and project. You will work as a group to research all of the group's explorers ( 3 or 4 depending on how many group members there are). You are responsible for helping each other. Ferdinand Magellan (1519) Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1557) Giovanni De Verrazano (1524) Estevanico Leif Eriksson (1000) Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) (1497) Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1513) Ponce de Leon (1513) Hernando Cortes (1519-1521) Jacques Cartier (1534) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1540-1542) Hernando de Alarcon (1540) Hernando (1541) Martin Frobisher (1576) Samuel de Champlain (1604) Henry Hudson (1610)
The European Explorers. Teacher Guide To The Explorers. Teacher Guide to Famous Explorers Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) who discovered the Americas on his voyage to find a new path to the East Indies literally rewrote the history of the World. He opened the New World to the Old World and many good and bad things stemmed from that significant journey. Most of the dramatic discoveries in terms of new lands and cultures happened in the 15th through the 17th century and at this time many European monarchs funded the trips of explorers. The hope was that the explorers would find new paths to wealth and glory. There are several famous explorers from this period. Much as the exploration of new lands lead to the expansion of the world and the breaking down of boundaries in the earlier centuries, the 20th century saw the dismantling of the air and space boundary and some the men and women who participated in these early space travels are great explorers also.
The South and North Pole have also drawn many an explorer.