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was the first European to land on the cost of North America. Specifically in what is now present day Canada.
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he was known for leading the first official European expedition
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sailed Southward down the coast of Africa making it to the southern tip of africa. He called this Southern tip of the "Cape of Good Hope".
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He is known for finding the country of Brazil in South America. He sets he starts a settlement there in 1488
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sailed around Aferica and all the way to India.
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His voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European of coastal north America.
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best known for investigations of the West Coast of North America
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he led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
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involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula
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Tried to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic, landed in the Americas but believed he had reached Asia (even when he died in 1506)
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and explorer who led a large expedition from mexico to present day Kansas
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a conquistador who explored Mexico
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a conquistador who explored the Andes Mountains of South America and conquered the Inca Empire
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circumnavigated, or sailed around, the world
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In service of king Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick
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Spanish explorer of the new world, one of the 4 survivors
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Henry Hudson was an english sea explorer and navigator
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Henry Hudson was an english sea explorer and navigator.
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He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada
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Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America
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Jacques Marquette was a French-American Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
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who claimed what what is now Canada for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
