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He was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was thought to be the first European to set foot in North America.Died in Greenland
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He sailed to the tip of Africa, he was the first European to do so. He was a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household. Setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.
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Sailed voyage with three ships Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta. He later set three more voyages sailing the Lesser Antilles.
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The former governor of Puerto Rico. He lead the first ever European expedition to Florida. He went to the Americas with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage.
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The first European to reach India by sea.His initial voyage to India was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route.
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An Italian merchant, explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery.
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He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
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Ferdinand organised the expedition to the East Indies. Resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth. He was a skilled sailor and navar.
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He was elected captain in the third expedition to the main land.His enmity with the Governor of Cuba resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment. But he did not listen.
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De Soto sailed to the New World with Pedrarias Dávila. Appointed as the first Governor of Panama.In 1520 he participated in Gaspar de Espinosa's expedition to Veragua.
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He was a spanish explorer of the new world. One of the four survivors of the 1527 Narvaez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader.
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He is best known for expeditions that led to the conquer of Peru.Pizarro chose to pursue fortune and adventure in the new world. He was granted permission to conquer Peru from the royal crown.
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Vázquez de Coronado was the Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia. a province of New Spain located northwest of Mexico and comprising the contemporary Mexican states of Jalisco, Sinaloa and Nayarit. In 1539, he dispatched Friar Marcos de Niza and Estevanico.
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In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa, who had been commissioned by Cortés, discovered the Gulf of California and reached nearly as far north as the 30th parallel. Cabrillo was then commissioned by the new Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, to lead an expedition up the Pacific coast in search of trade opportunities
