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an english phiosopher and sicentist
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(No exact date except year) In 1419, Henry founded a navigation school on the southwestern coast of Portugal. Mapmakers, instrument makers, shipbuilders, scientists, and sea captains gathered there to perfect their trade.
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First European to sail around the south coast of Africa and up along the east coast.
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discovery of the ocean route to the east
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sails across the alantic with his three small ships.
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(1497, 1499, 1501) Explored up and down the coast of South America. America was named after him.
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First European to sail around the south of Africa and reach India.
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Claimed coastal lands in present day Canada and U.S. for England. Founded colonies.
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Spanish conquistador and explorer who was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland.
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Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida. Went searching for riches and the Fountain of Youth. Landed on the East Coast of Florida(St. Augustine) and named it "Pascua de Florida" (feast of flowers) and claimed the land for Spain.
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(1519-1521) Conquered the rich Aztec Empire in Mexico.
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Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru. Conquered Incan Empire, stealing massive amounts of gold, silver, and other treasures. Explored South America.
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Italian navigator who explored the northeast coast of Norht America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine while searching for a Northwest passage to Asia.
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(1539-42) A spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern U.S.
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He was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.
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the great polish sicentist, is viwed today as the founder of moderen astonomy.
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French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a setlement in Quebec. DIscovered Lake Champlain in 1609. Important in establishing and administering the French colonies in the New World.
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(1607-1610) Was originally hired by the Dutch East India Company to find a trade route through the Americas to India. He failed at this but instead discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait.
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Found the Mississippi River. They travelled along Lake Michigan to Green Bay, to Fox River, and the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi River. Joliet expanded fur trade westward, did extensive mapping, and established a fort on Anticosti Island.
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French Explorer who was sent by Kind Louis XIV(14) to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. Explored Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
