Question

Identify the explorer who reached the Gulf of Mexico after exploring the Mississippi River, but who had hoped to reach the Pacific Ocean
a. Ferdinand Magellan
b. Rene-Robert La Salle
c. Bartolomeu Dias
d. Henry Hudson

Answer 1

what do you think the answer is

Answer 2

c

Answer 3

not really he was a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.

Answer 4

so what do you think is the answer now

Answer 5

idk

Answer 6

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián

Answer 7

so cant be him

Answer 8

Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circl

Answer 9

d

Answer 10

cant be him so that leaves

Answer 11

who?

Answer 12

b.

Answer 13

Yes René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.