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He was a viking sailor, he left sandinavyia and landed on present day candia. he was the first eroupein in north america
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Disovered the southern tips of africa; and he called it "Cape of Good Hope" He was sponcered by portugal.
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he tried to reach asia by sailing west across the alatic but he landed in the americas, and he was sponcered by spain.
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he found a sea route to asia and sailed around the coast of africa all the way to india. he was sponcered by portugal
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He went to look for a northern sea route to asia.
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He claimed the country of brazil in south america for portugal
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he explored the coast of south america and relised it was a seperate contenet calling it the americas.
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he was the first eroupian to see and claim the pacific ocean
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He made the first spanish landing on the east coast on present-day Flordia.
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He landed on the east coast of present-day Mexico. Within two years, he conquered the Aztec empire that he had ruled the region.
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He led an army into the Inca capital in Cuzco, Peru. He soon controlled the vast and wealthy Inca empire.
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He explored the coast of north america from present-day nova scotia down to the carolinas.
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The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state. He was sponsored by Panfilo de Narváez,
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He sailed up the ST. lawerance river. He discovered a moutain peak that he named Mont royal.
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Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River. He was sponserd by Pedro Arias Dávila
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Though the explorers found none of the storied treasure, they did discover the Grand Canyon and other major physical landmarks of the region, and clashed violently with local Indians. With his expedition labeled a failure by Spanish colonial authorities, Coronado returned to Mexico, where he died in 1554. He was sponsored by Antonio de Mendoza
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The Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America. Cabrillo was not the first to search for a water passage across the North American continent, and he would not be the last.
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He discovered the river that now rests to his name. He sailed north on the hudson river as far as the site of present-day Albany.
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They both travled the mississippi river by canoe. They hoped to find presious metals. When they relised that the mississippi river flowed south into the Gulf of Mexico rather then went into the paific.
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He followed the mississippi all the way to the gulf of mexico. He claimed for france calling it Louisiana of honor of Louis XIV.