Study the map here. Then choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence about European exploration.

Christopher Columbus was originally seeking a new route to
.

explored and mapped the coast of South America between 1499 and 1501.

explored southeastern North America in 1540.

Ferdinand Magellan sailed around
✔ the southern tip of South America
in 1520.

India.

The explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Hernando de Soto.

Cape of Good Hope.