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on August 3rd, 1492 Christopher coulombs set sail on his first of four voyages across the Atlantic ocean. -
John Cabot ans his son Sebastian Cabot explore form Labrador to cape cod -
Italian cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci explores the Brazilian coast realizing he has found a new continent. -
Juan ponce de León a Spanish explorer and conquistador finds and names Florida, in search for the fountain of youth. -
Portuguse explorer Ferdinand Magellan sails around South America into the Pacific. His expedition becomes the first to circumnavigate the globe. -
In a French sponsored voyage Italian explorer Giovanni de Verrazano discovers the Hudson River before sailing north to Nova Scotia. -
In Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire. -
Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca explores from the Sabine River to the Gulf of California. When he arrives in Mexico City he shares stories which reinforce ideas that the Seven Cities of gold exist and are located in New Mexico. -
french Franciscan friar Fray Marcos de Niza is sent by the Spanish governor of Mexico to explore Arizona and New Mexico in searching for the Seven Cities of Gold claiming that he has seen them upon his return. -
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto explores Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, meets the Mississippian chiefdoms there and becomes the first European to cross the Mississippi River where he is killed by the locals. -
Spanish conquistador and explorer Francisco Coronado leaves Mexico City and explores the Gila River, the Rio Grande, and the Colorado River. He reaches as far north as Kansas before returning to Mexico City also searching for the seven cities of gold