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Ericsson was born in Iceland and was one of the sons of the explorer Eric the Red. He saild north who was possibly the first European to sail to North America. He accomplish his goals.
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Prince Henry was the third son of King John. He started his school of navagaion in 1418. He saild to Africa to explor new land and found Cape Bojador in the way. Gil Eannes was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail beyond the dreaded Cape Bojador and return.
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Born in Gental Italy in 1451 worked for porcical.
He was an explorer.
Saild from spain to find Asisa.
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On a second, larger expedidicion sailed with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies.
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Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, to India. People thought that it was impossible becasue they thought the Indian Ocean did not conect to enyother.
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1450 John was born an Italian-born English. He was and explorer navagator. On June 24, 1one of John Cabot's three sons, the explorer Sebastian Cabot, accompanied him on this trip. Cabot claimed the land for England.
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His second trip was to Amarica and Cabot's expeditions were the first of Britain's claims to Canada.
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Columbus sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela. He was the first Erupean to step foot on the land now amarica.
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Discoved the mouth of the Amazon.
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Boren 1454. Vespucci was the first man that printed a map of used the name Amarica the New World.
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1474 When Sevastian was born. Cabot searched for the Northwest passage across North America. Later from spain he started a trip around the world 1526-1529 but he only made it as far as the enormous mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
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Magellan was born in Northern Portugal in 1480.Early in his career, Magellan sailed to India and to the Far East many times via Africa's Cape of Good Hope. First expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean.
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Born in 1485. Spanish adventurer and conquistador he was also a failed law student.He whent from Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula to look forbrutally for gold siver and treasures butt found the Aztects killed the Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquered his Aztec Empire of Mexico.
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In 1524, he went on an expedition to Nicaragua, South America, First to explore Florda.
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expedition to Tampa Bay, Florida, Made it but Winters where cold only 15 survived Native amaricans died buring bad hurricans.
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Born 1478. Pizarro took the treasure and had Atahuallpa strangled on Aug. 29, 1533; this was the end of the Incan empire he ambushed them and that was the end of the Incans.
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Born 1510. He was the first European to explore North America's Southwest. He killed lots of native amaricans. Whanted to find treasures like gold or silver but did not
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Born in 1545. Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world 1577 to 1580.Drake died of fever at sea near Panama; he was on a voyage intending to attack Spanish colonies in the West Indies.
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Sir Walter Raleigh born on 1554. Walter was in North Amarica for resorces and was in now day Virginia.
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Born 1567?. In 1608, Champlain led 32 colonists to settle Quebec in order to establish it as a fur-trading center.
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Born 1565. He English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. Hudson sailed into New York's harbor on September 3, 1609 and noted what an excellent harbor it was.
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Minuit is famous for buying the island of Manhattan (in what is now New York, USA) from Native Americans in 1626 for 24$.
