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500
Polynesian exploration of Pacific
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Period: 500 to
Years
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Oct 18, 1000
Norse voyages
to Iceland, Greenland, North America -
Oct 18, 1271
Marco Polo
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Oct 18, 1325
Ibn Battuta
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Oct 18, 1405
Zheng He
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Oct 18, 1492
Columbus
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Oct 18, 1497
John Cabot reaches Newfoundland
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Oct 18, 1498
Vasco de Gama reaches India
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Oct 18, 1513
Balboa crosses Isthmus of Panama, reaches Pacific
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Oct 18, 1517
Selim "the navigator" conquers Egypt
Ottoman - key to accessing Indian Ocean -
Oct 18, 1520
Hernan Cortes explores Mexico, conquers Aztec empire
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Oct 18, 1520
Magellan circumnavigates the world
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Oct 18, 1524
Verrazzano explores the east coast of N. America
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Oct 18, 1530
Francisco Pizarro explores/conquers Peru for Spain
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Oct 18, 1531
Cartier finds St. Lawrence river
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Oct 18, 1534
Ibrahim Pasha, Ottoman conquers Iraq
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Oct 18, 1576
Frobisher discovers Baffin Island and Frobisher Bay
while searching for Northwest Passage -
Sir Walter Raleigh's men explore N. Carolina - find Chesapeake Bay
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Henry Hudson finds Hudson River
while searching for Northwest Passage -
Hudson explores Hudson Bay, dies there after mutiny
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James Cook explores Pacific Islands and circumnavigates earth
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William Parry explores Arctic in search of Northwest Passage
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Nansen reaches 86/13 north latitude
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Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claim to have reached N. Pole