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He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organized and financed. He was a smart person. At the age of twenty he pesauded his dad to go against a muslim port.
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John Cabot was born in Genoa Italy around 1450. The idea that a northern way was there started the search for the Northwest Passage to the Indies. He made his first trip to North America in 1497. The ship was called the Matthew and had a crew of 18 people.
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Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in 1454.He was educated by his uncle and became a businessman. Amerigo Vespucci is important because he was one of the early explorers of America.
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Led an expadition at the end of the 15th century that opened the sea route to India. Many years of portugeuse exploration down the west african coast had been rewarded. Four ships left Lisbon on july 8, 1497 that Vasco sailed.
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Ponce de Leon was fighting Muslims in southern Spain. He use to be on Spain's side. Later then a arguement with the king made him turn against Spain
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Was well educated just like family. He was the first European to see brazil in the 1500s. Pedro came from a noble Portuguese family and his father attended the Portuguese court.
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The first European to see the cape of good hope which is at the bottom of africa. He entered the gold and ivory trade. Italy was growing rich from trade with india.
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Francisco Pizzaro was a spanish conquistador. He traveled much of the coast of America and along Peru. He discovered the Incan empire and conqured it as well.
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A arguement with the Portuguese King Manoel II turned him against the Portuguese. He selled to the east many times. Also to the african cape of good hope.
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Hernan Cortes was a Spanish explorer who is famous because of his march in Mexico and conquering the Aztec Empire in Mexico. First he went to the island of Santo Domingo in 1504. He was only 19 years old.
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Giovanni was an Italian navigator. He explored the NorthEast coast of North America. He went t spain and then later landed at cape fear.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was born about 1490 near Cadiz, Spain. His parents were Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca.
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He was born in ganoa. He was the oldest in his family of five. He was the first european to go to america.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas agreed that the Spanish and the Portuguese make peace. Portugal tryed to find a direct quicker route to the India and China. Arab merchants who owned trade routes were'nt able to make money off European trade.
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He lived from 1491 to 1557. Cartier made his first trip to the America in 1534. His second voyage started in 1535. After returning the indian. Jacques Cartier started to explore the St. Lawrence River.
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1475 he was born. He was from a poor spanish family and was uneducated. 1510 he went to San Sebastian the explorers found out it was set on fire. Balboa persuaded his partners and Nicuesa and Enciso to finish their exploration towards the southwest. Balboa had visited this land from his previous voyage
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What happened was he went to went agaisnt spanish main. Most of his ships were sunken by them. Then later he went to get his revenge and he got it.
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Cabrillo left from the port of Navidad Mexico on June 27, 1542 1519 he served in the army of the famous conquistador Hernan Cortes. He died in 1543 from a shatered limb.
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He was an english explorer. He navigated parts of the Artic Ocean. The Hudson river, Hudson bay, and Hudson Strait is akk named after him.
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he was born in 1550. In 1585 he started on his first northwestern trip. He discovered the falkland isand.
