Explorers

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Explorers
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• 1475? 1519
• Spanish
• 1st European to reach the eastern shore of the
  Pacific Ocean
• Claimed the ocean for Spain

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John Cabot

• 1450 -1498
• English explorer
• Explored present day Newfoundland in 1497

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Jacques Cartier

• 1491 -1557
• French explorer
• Searched for Northwest Passage
• Reached mouth of St. Lawrence River in Canada
  in 1534

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Samuel de Champlain

• 1567 -1635
• French explorer
• Explored St. Lawrence River
• Founded Quebec the first permanent French
  settlement in North America
• Father of New France

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Christopher Columbus

• 1451-1506
• Italian who sailed for Spain
• 4 voyages in search of all water route to China
  1492-1504
• Died never knowing he had reached a new continent

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Francisco Coronado

• 1510-1554
• Spanish conquistador
• Explored SW part of what is now US
• Cibola Cities of gold

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Hernando Cortes

• 1485-1547
• Spanish conquistador
• Conquered the Aztec Empire - Mexico

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Bartholomeu Dias

• 1450-1500
• Portuguese Explorer
• 1st European to round Cape of Good Hope at the
  southern tip of Africa in 1487

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Sir Francis Drake

• 1540? 1596
• English
• First Englishman to circumnavigate the world in
  1577

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Leif Ericsson

• Viking
• Son of Eric the Red (founder of Greenland)
• Late 900s early 1000s
• North America c. 1000
• Newfoundland Vinland

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Vasco da Gama

• 1469? 1524
• Portuguese explorer
• Sailed around southern tip of Africa to India in
  1497

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Prince Henry

• 1394 -1460
• Portuguese ruler who encouraged Dias and DaGama
  in search of all water route to the Indies around
  Africa
• Known as Henry the Navigator

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Henry Hudson

• 1565 -1611
• Sailed for both the English and the Dutch
• Searched for the Northwest Passage
• Explored Hudson River and claimed valley for
  Netherlands

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Louis Jolliet

• 1645-1700
• French fur trader
• Explored Mississippi River in 1673 with Father
  Jacques Marquette

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Robert LaSalle

• 1643 -1687
• French
• Explorer Mississippi River 1681
• Claimed Mississippi River Valley for France
  Louisiana
• Died in Texas in 1687

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Ponce de Leon

• 1460? 1521
• Spanish
• Explored Florida in search of the Fountain of
  Youth in 1513

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Ferdinand Magellan

• 1480? 1521
• Spanish explorer
• Led the first circumnavigation of the world 1519
  
• Killed during voyage

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Jacques Marquette

• 1637 - 1675
• French missionary
• Explored Mississippi
• River in 1673 with
• Louis Jolliet

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Francisco Pizarro

• 1478? 1541
• Spanish conquistador
• Defeated Inca empire in Peru in 1533

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Marco Polo

• 1254? 1324?
• Italian merchant
• Silk Road to China
• Wrote book, Travels of Marco Polo, which inspired
  Columbus

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Amerigo Vespucci

• 1454-1512
• Italian
• Eastern coast of South America 1501
• America named in his honor