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He raided countries in Europe creating large trading networks. In 1000 he was blown off course because of a storm. He was the first European to reach North America.
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He is the prince of Portugal. He founded a school for sailors. Studied navigation, map making, ship building, & astronomy. He also spent a lot of money on school and expeditions exploring the coast of Africa
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He sailed from portugal southward made it to the bottom of africa. He was discovering the southern tip of africa, the Cape of Good Hope.
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His voyages led to new exchanges between Europe, Africa And the Americans. He sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and reached a continent that was previously unknown to him. After Columbus 's voyages, other explorers sailed to the Americans.
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He sailed around Africa and all the way to india. Winning the European race for a sea route to asia.
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He was sailing for the english, searching for a passage to the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Canada and Newfoundland.
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On 1499 voyage, Vespucci sailed to the northern part of South America and into the Amazon River. He gave places he saw names like the "Gulf of Ganges" thinking as his explorer contemporaries did, that he was in Asia
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He explored present-day florida in 1513 looking for the fountain of youth.
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He helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darien, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1513 while leading a expedition in search of gold, he sighted the Pacific Ocean.
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He explored mexico in 1519. He also conquered the Aztec.
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He became the first European to sail the Pacific Ocean, and the first to sail around the world. His voyages proved that the earth is round.
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He was accompanied by Estevanico (a slave) and others, explored the North american Southwest looking for 7 cities of gold.
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Francisco explored the andes mountains of south america and conquered the Inca empire.
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He sailed down Saint Lawrence river all the way to present-day Montreal, claiming the lands for france.
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He explored Florida and North carolina. He also discovered the Mississippi river.
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He discovered the Grand Canyon. Also in North american Southwest, looking for cities of gold.
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He was a maritime explorer best known for investigations of the west coast of north america, undertaken on behalf of the spanish empire.
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He began exploring North America in 1603, establishing the city of Quebec in northern colony of New France, and mapping the Atlantic coast and the Great Lakes, before setting into an administrative role as the de facto governor of New France in 1620.
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He made two unsuccessful voyages in search of an ice-free passage to Asia
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He led a Dutch expedition to present-day New York in 1609
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Claimed lands along the Mississippi River and in the Mississippi Valley.
