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De Leon Ponce established the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico and discovered the Gulf Stream (a current in the Atlantic Ocean). He was the first European to set foot in Florida. He may have accompanied Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage to the New World.
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Vincente sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, as captain of the Niña.Pinzon’s journey produced the first recorded account of a European explorer sighting the Brazilian coast.
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón was a spanish explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526, He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina.
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Vasco Nuniez De Balboa was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513), after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. He helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama.
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Cortés traveled inland and "discovered" Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, claiming all of Mexico for Spain in 1521. His sights on overthrowing ruler Montezuma II in the Aztec capital of Tenochitilán.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
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Was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico. In 1517, he sailed to the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, with Francisco de Córdoba's expedition
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Diego was an explorer and conquistador involved in the second voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World.
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Francisco helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.
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Amerigo was Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
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Gonzalo helped conquer Peru in the early 1530s and led a rebellion against Spain in the 1540s.
