Explorers Facts:
- Christopher Columbus traveled from Spain to North America.
- Marco Polo traveled from Europe to China on the silk road. He came back to Italy with spices and silk. The people in Italy liked it a lot.
- John Cabot traveled to North America from England.
- Hernando De Soto searched for gold in North America.
- Bartolomeu Dias did not see North America.
- Francisco Coronado searched for cities of gold and was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.
- Juan de Ponce de Leon explored Florida for gold. He did not find it.
- Amerigo Vespucci went where Columbus went and decided it was a different continent.
- Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
- Magellan sailed around the world. He found the Philippines. He died in the Philippines.
- Leif Erikson settled in North America but didn’t stay. He was born in Iceland and lived in Greenland. It was very cold where he was born.
- Jacque Cartier looked for a Northwest Passage to Asia. He was a French explorer.