Famous Explorers World Around During the in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, explorers set out to discover new lands. Read the descriptions and identify them.

He was a Portuguese He was a Portuguese navigator and explorer. navigator who travelled to He and his crew were the India from 1497 to 1524. first Europeans to sail His voyages opened up the around the world, sea route to the east proving that it was through the Cape of Good round. In 1519, he Hope. His discoveries made discovered the Strait of one of the most Magellan and sailed important sea-trading8 across the . nations. EERDTNAN D MAGELLAN VASCO. DA GAMA

He was an ace navigator, and He was a Venetian merchant admiral who undertook 3 and adventurer who travelled transatlantic voyages in 1492-93, from Europe to Asia in 1271-95. 1493-96, 1498-1500, and 1502 He reached beyond Mongolia 04. These travels opened the path and spent 17 years in China, for European and where he became a close friend exploitation. He is also knowm as to Kublai Khan. He narrated his the 'discoverer' of the New tale through his book. It became World. one of the greatest travelogues CHRTST 0PHER_COLOMBUSS of that time. MARCO PoLO

He was an Italian merchant, cartographer, and explorer- navigator who took part in voyages to the New World in 1499-1500 and 1501-02. It is his name from which the word America' comes. As a result of his voyages, scholars of those days first realized that the Americas were indeed a 'New World' and not part of Asia, as Columbus and others had thought. AMER 1GD_LESPUCLC neworld(34 He was an English 6 He was a Spanish admiral and the most who renowned seaman of overthrew the Aztec empire the Elizabethan Age. in 1519-21. He was In 1577 he was successful in reaching the chosen as the leader Mayan territory along the of an expedition Yucatan Peninsula, and won intended to pass Mexico for the crown of around South Spain. He explored Central America through the America in order to find a and to explore the strait that would join the Atlantic coast that lay beyond. He carried to the Pacific. He failed in this out the second circumnavigation of mission and instead discovered the worldin a single expedition. and named California. SIR FRANCTS DRAKE HERNAN DO

After becoming the first to conquer Mt Everest together with Tenzings Norgay, he climbed 10 a British other peaks in the uCaptain James Cook was explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made Himalayas on further detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three which he achieved visits. He led an voyages on the Pacific Ocean, during expedition to the South the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian , and the Pole in 1958 and a jet- first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. boat expedition from the mouth of the Ganges River to know which they its source in 1977. Out How could explorers way EDMUND_ ATLARY Think were going when they couldn't see land?

Vasco da Gama 2 Hernando Cortes7 Marco Polo3 Sir 6 Christopher Columbus 4 Edmund Hillary 8 Amerigo Vespucci Qz Choose the correctoption. TIME

team in Brazil is named? explorer, a professional football After which Portuguese C. Bartolomeu Dias a. Ferdinand Magellan b. On which did Francis Drake complete his circumnavigation of the globe? C. Golden Brown a. b. Golden Fleece

in 1779? was James Cook killed On which C. Hawaii a. Tasmania b. Fiji to a fellow where he dictated 'The Travels Marco Polo' In which Italian city was Marco Polo imprisoned, of inmate? C. Verona a. Venice b. Genoa (35@Pineworld