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He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America,
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John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England
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In 1500 Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal.
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Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
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Juan Ponce de León, commonly known as Ponce de León, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos,
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Is a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea
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Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery
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He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524
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He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513,
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Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro chose to pursue fortune and adventure in the New World.
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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
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Jacques Cartier was a French-Breton maritime explorer who claimed what is now Canada for the Kingdom of France.
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Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
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He was the first European to explore present-day California, navigating along the coast of California in 1542–1543.
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Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century
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Jacques Marquette was born in Laon, France, on June 1, 1637. He joined the Society of Jesus at age 17 and became a Jesuit missionary. He founded missions in present-day Michigan and later joined explorer Louis Joliet on an expedition to discover and map the Mississippi River.
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.
