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Leif began sailing to Norway to be converted into a Christian around A.D 1000,Leif Eriksson sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and landed on America and was the first Europeans to have step foot on North America 500 years before Columbus
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Prince Henry sailed down the west coast of Africa to see Portuguese sailors try to find the Muslim world and Christian priest that did not exist
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Dias 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 thought he could sail from Europe to Asia to try to find a new trade route to China and the spice lands before that could happen there was a signal from the Pinta ship that signaled they spotted land and believed they landed in the Indies but really landed in North America.
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Cabot sailed west from Bristol to Canada in hope of finding a new route to Asia and landed in Canada which he thought was Asia and claimed it for England
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On his 1st he embarked but on his 3rd voyage he discovered a new continent south of North America and named it the New World and in 1507 it was named after him
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He was the first European to find an ocean trading route to India
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He lead an expedition that lead the Aztec Empire to fall and claimed Mexico on behalf of Spain
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He was the first European to lead an expedition to have seen the Pacific Ocean
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He lead the first official European expedition to LaFlorida that he named during his first voyage to that area and sailed down to Florida Keys and North along the Gulf Coast to try and find the Fountain of Youth
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He set out with five ships from Spain to find a Western sea route to the Spice islands and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean
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He got in a shipwreck on a little island off the Texas coastline de Vaca and three other Europeans were one of the first Europeans to explore the south part of America
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He explored for the Incas and is best known for conquering the Inca Empire and executing their leader Atahuapla
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He was sent by King Francis I of France to lead a voyage to the New World and find gold and other riches including a new route to Asia but instead he and his expedition found and explored the western coast of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence
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He and his expedition discovered the Grand Canyon and lots of other famous landmarks down South of America while they searched for the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola that they never found
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He and his expedition became the first Europeans to have seen and crossed the Mississippi River
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He was the first European to explore California and to discover the San Diego Bay while searching for a mythical all water route across North America and failed
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He mapped the Atlantic Coast of Canada and discovered Quebec then later founded Quebec and is known as the Father of France
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Hudson was hired to find a shorter route to Asia from Europe through the Arctic Ocean when he made his first voyage but failed twice and was turned back by ice
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Hudson made his 3rd and 4th voyage to North America and discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay.
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He led an expedition down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and explored the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico and claimed all the Mississippi basin for his country France
