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Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese soldier and explorer who sailed to the Spice Islands.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, explorer, and navigator who was the first European to see Brazil
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Diogo Dias was a Portuguese navigator and brother of Bartolomeu Dias who was the first European to sail to Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Diogo Dias landed in Madagascar in 1500, and named it the Isle of St. Lawrence.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.After crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland.
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1475-1526) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526.
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Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] (1490?-1557?) was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
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Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
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Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541.
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Cwas a Spanish or Portuguese explorer (his nationality is uncertain).
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a Spanish ruler, explorer and conquistador. He was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.
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Panfilo de Narvaez was a Spanish explorer and soldier.
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Panfilo de Narvaez was a Spanish explorer and soldier.
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to trade for spices).
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Sebastian Cabot was an explorer, mapmaker and navigator of Italian descent.
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Jacques Cartie was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541.
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Francisco Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524).
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, also known as Bernal Diaz, was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllónwas a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526.
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Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida.
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Bartolomeu Dias was a great Portuguese navigator and explorer who explored Africa's coast
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was a Muslim slave from northern Africa who was one of the early explorers of the Southwestern United States.
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, also known as was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
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Fray Marcos de Nizawas a Franciscan priest who is said to have traveled to the fabled "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola" in what is now the western part of New Mexico.