ZACH

Christopher Columbus

• sailed for England
• Reasons: searching for riches,land,and trade
• Obstacles: fear,Natives, and no maps
• Accomplishments: he found america's,1st to cross Atlantic ocean

John Cabot

• sailed for England
• Reasons: for land,riches 
• Obstacles: trees,fear,ship crashed
• Accomplishments: found new land and plants

Henry Hudson

• sailed for England
• Reasons: wanted to find sea passage to spice island
• Obstacles: landed in Greenland, but blocked by ice
• Accomplishments:found 3 waterways named after him
• the Hudson river,Hudson bay,Hudson straight

JACQUES CARTIER

• Sailed for France
• Reasons: Sponsored by France to search for riches
• and a shorter route to Asia
• Obstacles: Illness,Huron tribe turned on them lost men in battle
• Accomplishments: Gave Canada it's name, Explored the st.larwence river

JUAN PONCE DE LEON

• Sailed for Spain
• Reasons: Heard reports of gold and fountain of youth
• Obstacles: lost is life by an arrow from a native american
• Accomplishments:found gold,named Florida witch is spanish
• for covered in flowers

VASCO NÙÑEZ BALBOA

• Sailed for spain
• Reasons: told there was a rich
• land so he searched for it
• Obstacles: fought aginst native americans
• Accomplishments: found a land route to pacific found Hispaniola