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Explorers

How would the world be different we they didn't explore?

 

Explorers: Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Henry Hudson, Ponce de Leon

 

Search for explorer by name

 

At home, go to iCONN, click on "Try this" button or enter public library card number, click on Middle Schools on the left, then click on World History in Context

Search for explorer by name.  You may get an overview paragraph at the top.  Also scroll down for more resources. 

 

At home, go to iCONN, click on "Try this" button or enter public library card number, click on Middle Schools on the left, then click on Biography in Context

 

 

Search for explorer by name

Select the articles in GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA and look at the extra links in the articles there are MAPS available of the various exploration voyages

From History.com 

Christopher Columbus

 

Ferdinand Magellan

 

Francisco Pizarro

 

Henry Hudson

 

Juan Ponce de Leon

 

Hernan Cortes vs Montezuma

Exploration of North America, an interactive map that traces the routes of Christopher Columbus and Henry Hudson 

Primary Sources List from a Netherlands university.  Has links to primary source material for Christopher Columbus, and Hernan Cortes 

 

1492: An Ongoing Voyage describes what life was like in the New World before Columbus