California Explorers Research Sites

Here is a short list of possible websites to help you with your research... be sure to record all sites you use.

Variety of Explorers

Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List

Age of Exploration Vocabulary

Age of Exploration Timeline

California Explorers

Early California Explorers - Oak Avenue School Resources

Timeline of world explorers

DRAKE

 Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake - "Famous Voyage" - the circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Sir Francis Drake

Coastal Navigation and Exploration of the Monterey Bay Area: learn about Cabrillo, Viscaino and Drake

Roanoke Revisited Heritage Education Program - Sir Francis Drake

PORTOLA

San Diego Historical Society - Gaspar de Portola

Monterey County Historical Society -The Portolá Expedition of 1769

The Founding of Monterey -Portola

Gaspar de Portola

CORTES

Aztex Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Hernan Cortes)

THE CONQUEST OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE: HERNÁN CORTÉS

Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo

Hernando Cortez - Student project

The Conquest of the Aztec Empire - Hernan Cortes

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico - Hernan Cortes

VIZCAINO

Coastal Navigation and Exploration of the Monterey Bay Area: learn about Cabrillo, Viscaino and Drake

San Diego Historical Society - Sebastian Vizcaino

Monterey County Historical Society - Sebastian Vizcaíno's Exploration
of Monterey in 1602-1603

Sebastian Vizcaino

de ANZA

Juan Bautista de Anza: Blazed the Anza Trail

Juan Bautista de Anza: short biography

Desert USA - Juan Bautista de Anza

Web de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza

CABRILLO

Coastal Navigation and Exploration of the Monterey Bay Area: learn about Cabrillo, Viscaino and Drake

San Diego Historical Society - Cabrillo

AllRef Encyclopedia - Cabrillo

Cabrillo