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Leif Erickson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
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King John had sent Dias to explore the southernmost part of Africa. They sailed for days , they saw a piece of land , it was named "Cape of Storms". King John renamed it to the "Cape of Good Hope".
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Christopher Coukumbus , led 90 sailors in three ships. The Pinta made a signal they saw land. Columbus left his ship and went ashore. He believe he was in the Indies , but he was in North America
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They had 4 ships , they sailed in a wide arc south and west of Africa. They were looking for ocean currents that will help them travel safely to "Cape of Good Hope". They ended up finding a sea route to Asia !
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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.
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Amerigo Vespucci led a voyage funed my Spain. He realised South America was not a part of Asia.
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Sailed for spain around the coast of South America. He took such good notes about the cost that mapmakers were convinced this was not Asia.
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Oh his way around Africa he went to wide and ended up in Brazil, South America.
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He went looking for the Fountain of Youth in modern day Florida.
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He travels trough central America and is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean.
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Wein into Central America (modern day Mexico) and conquered the Aztec.
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Ferdinand Magellan was sailing for Spain , they reached the southernmost tip of South America. He sailed through stormy days of a narrow sea passage . They were the first people to sail around the world.
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He circumnavigated the globe. It took under 3 years to do.
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Florentine explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.
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There ship crashed and they were caught and they were slaves for the Northern Americans.
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He went to South America and conquered the Inca Empire.
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French-Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
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He explored Florida and North Carolina . He was the first European to see the mississippi river and crossed it.
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He found a crack so big you can see it from outer space. It is called the grand canyon.
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He explores up from Mexico and goes into modern day California.
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Henry Hudson was an English navigator and explorer who set out to find either a northeast passage “by the North Pole to Japan and China” or a similar northwest passage.
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He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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He founded missions in present-day Michigan and later joined explorer Louis Joliet on an expedition to discover and map the Mississippi River.
