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In 1000 Lief Eriksson was blown off course by a storm. -Landed off the coast of N America -1st Europeans to reach N America
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Known for finding brazil.
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Bartolomeu Dias set out from Lisbon with two small caravels and a supply ship. Sent to explore the southern most part of Africa. Helped discover a possible new route to India.
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Was an Italian. Looked for a Northern sea route to Asia. Landed on the coast of present-day Newfoundland.
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Found the route to Asia with the help of Bartolomeu Dias. Sailed a wide arc south and west of Africa to reach ocean currents that would help the sailors travel safely around the cape of good hope. He acheived Portugal's long-held dream of a sea route to Asia.
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One of the First people to discover America. America, was named after him. Signed a Treaty of Tordesillas.
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Was hoping to win favor of Ferdinand, the king of Spain. Was looking to find gold, he found the pacific ocean and claimed it and all of its shores for Spain.
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Landed on the coast of present day Mexico. Within two years, Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire that had ruled the region. The Aztec's gold made Spain and Cortes rich.
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Died in the Philippine islands. His crew was first to circumnavigate, or sail around the world.
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-Explored the coast of North America from present day Nova Scotia down to the Carolinas. -Was hired by France to look for Northern route.
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Pizarro led an army into the Inca capital in Cuzco,Peru. The Spanish arrested and later executed the Inca ruler. Pizarro soon controlled the vast and wealthy Inca empire.
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-Sailed up to saint Lawrence river -Did not make it to the pacific but he discovered a mountain peak that he named Mont-Royal. Which means Royal mountain. Which is now the site of modern day montreal.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was part of a Spanish expedition to Florida in 1528. After coming into a conflict with the Native Americans in Florida, the expedition sailed south towards Mexico in November, led by Panfilo de Narvaez. Three of five boats were lost in a storm. Cabeza de Vaca told the Native Americans that they had healing powers. He told eager listeners about the seven city's of gold.
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Searched for the legendary fountain of youth. Juan Ponce de Leon made the first Spanish landing on the east coast of present day Florida in 1513. Juan Ponce de Leon's exploration led to the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States-----a fort the Spanish built at St.Augustine,Florida.
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-Henry Hudson was English -Found the river that now bears his name, the Hudson River. Sailed north of the Hudson river all the way to present day Albany, New York.
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-Henry Hudson was English -Found the river that now bears his name, the Hudson River. -Found present day Hudson Bay, when he thought he was in the pacific -When the crew rebelled they sent Hudson, his son, and a few sailors out on a small boat, never to be seen again.
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Was hoping to find precious metals Realized that the Mississippi flowed south into the golf of Mexico rather than the west of the pacific.
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Was hoping to find precious metals Realized that the Mississippi flowed south into the golf of Mexico rather than the west of the pacific.
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Followed the Mississippi river all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. He claimed the region for France and named it Louisiana after Louis XIV
