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Prince Henry the Navigator was the Portuguese royal prince, soldier and patron of explorers. He sent ships expeditions down the Africa's west coast, which he did not attend.
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Columbus discovered the "New World" of the americans.
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The spice trade began in the MIddle East over 4,000 years ago. The Muslims were now in control of the control trade route that was currenly exisiting.
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Juan Ponce De Leon was the founder of the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico and landed on the mainland of North America.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
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In search of fame and fortune, Portugese Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
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Bartolomeu Dias became the first European mariner to get together the southern tip of Africa. When this event it opened the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
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He was a navigator, which was also an explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.
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Served on the 1513 espedition of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, during which he discovered the Pacific Ocean.
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A Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and who mexico for the crown of Spain.
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Hernando de Soto was found who had become the first European to discover the Missippi River and his exploration began at age 14.
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Jacques Cartier named after the "Kanata", the settlement which was originally named the Huroniroquois.
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At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish Explorer Francisco Coronado was serving as governor of an important province in New Spain.
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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an English explorer-adventurer and writer who established a colony near roanoke island, in present- day North Carolina.
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John Cabot is an Explorer that has claimed to land in Canada but he had made a mistake for it be Asia, during his 1597 voyage on the ship Matthew.
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Jacques Marquette is best known as the first European to see and map the northern portion of the Missippi River.
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Louis Jolliet was the 17th century Canadian explorer who aided by the Native American communities, explored the origins of the Missippi River.
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Rene-Robert de La Salle was an explorer and he was best known as the leading espedition down the illinois and missippi rivers.
