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This invention is called the Lateen Sail and it helped in the speed of ships. It lets air catch it and the wind blows the sail and that pushes the boat.
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This invention is called the Magnetis compass. It shows which way North, East ,South, and West using magnetic poles to draw metal objects inside the compass to the North Pole and the South Pole.
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This invention was called the astrolabe and it was used to guide ships at sea.
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This invention is called a rudder. It is something that helps steer the boat. The rudder is on the bottom of a boat.
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His name is Marco Polo and he traveled to China and Asia to learn about goods. He was from Italy and he was a merchant there. He made a book about his memories and it sold all over Europe.
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His name was Henry the Navigator as some people called him. He found the islands of Madiera and Porto Santo.
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His name is Bartholomew Dias. He was from Europe and was the first person to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. He was on an expidition to Brazil but, his ship sank in 1500.He discovered a new way to travel from Europe to Asia going around the tip of Africa.
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His name is John Cabot and he explored the East side of upper North America.
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His name is Christopher Columbus and he searched for a route from England to Asia. He also found and claimed land in the Americas. He did it for Spain.
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His name is Amerigo Vespucci and he found the new land (now known as America.)
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His name is Vasco De Gama and he discovered a sea route to India. He also found Mambosa and Malinda.
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His name is Francisco Pizarro and he went through the isthmus of Panama with Vasco Nunez de Balboa. He left for Paris from Panama.
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His name is Juan Ponce De Leon and he had a war with the Imarite of Granada and then he went on the second expidition of Christopher Columbus to the Americas.
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His name is Vasco Nunez de Balboa and he founded Santa Maria witch he later become the mayor of.
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His name is Ferdinand Magellan and he was the first to do a circum-navigation of the world.
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His name was Hernando cortes or Hernan Cortes and he is most famuos for taking over the Aztecs in Mexico. He was born in Medellin, Columbia. He took all the gold and silver the aztecs had, but at first they did not know about the silver. They only knew about the gold.
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His name is Jacques Cartier and he discovered Brazil to proove he can guide a ship to new land.
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His name is Hernando De Soto and he went on a coquest to Peru. He joined Francisco Pizarro. He was originally looking to find a passage between the Pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean.
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His name is Francisco Vaquez De Coranado and he explored the middle of North America and also attacked the zunis tribe for not letting them enter.
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His name is SIr Francis Drake and he was a thief that traveled on ship and stole from ships and areas for their recources and money.
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His name is Henry Hudson and he found Jan Mayen. He started out as a cabin boy and worked hid way up to ship's captain.
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His name is Samuel Champlain and his first travel was on his father's ship. He founded the city of Quebec witch is on the East coast of North America.
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His name is Rene Robert Cavelier and he traveled down the Ohio river, but was stopped by the falls there.
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His name is Lief Eriksson and he was born in Iceland. He looked for Greenland after he visited Norway but ended up in North America. Leif found North Amerca although he was following a course set by another Icelander.
