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Greek poet and storyteller.
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Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, the first man known to have calculated the Earth's circumference.
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Roman author who put Homer's stories and others into a book.
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astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who considered the Earth the center of the universe.
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founder of Islam
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Henry the Navigator, he encouraged exploration by sea
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explored and settled Puerto Rico, and explored Bimini (Bahamas) and Florida while searching for the FOuntain of Youth.
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ruler of the Aztecs.
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an Indian woman who had learned Spanish and who helped Cortes achieve his goals.
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Renaissance astronomer.
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Dominican priest who spoke out for the American Indians against their Spanish overlords.
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conquered the Incan empire in Peru.
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first Spaniard to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
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Portuguese navigator and explorer whose shops first sailed around the world.
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conqueror of the Aztec empire.
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one of only four men who survived a Spanish shipwreck on Florida's coast in 1528, he then wandered through Texas and what would become northern Mexico before finding a Spanish outpost in 1538.
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French explorer of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and the St. Lawrence River.
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Franciscan friar who helped lead the expedition that looked for the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola.
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Spanish explorer who participated in Pizarro's conquest of Peru and then explored the North American continent from southwestern Florida north, through areas that are now part of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, across the Mississippi, into what is now Texas; the results of his explorations, together with Coronado's, convince the Spanish that the North American continent is hardly worth their trouble.
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by 1574 there were 12,000
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Spanish explorer who discovered the Grand Canyon, but also found that tales of the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola were false.
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French Protestant who established the first French colony in North America: Charlesfort in what is now South Carolina.
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First Queen Elizabeth.
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English admiral who circumnavigated the globe (1577-80), played an important role in defeating the Spanish Armada (1588), and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan Age.
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married Isabel de Tolosa Cortes Moctezuma, who was a descendant of famous conquistador Hernan and the Aztec emperor; founds the province of New Mexico in 1598
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a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, had great dreams for the Americas (both North and South) but they all came to naught; helped fun the failed attempt to establish a colony in Roanoke Island.
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Italian physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Also called the "father of physics."
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"Friendly Indian" who helped the people on the Mayflower.
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first native American to greet the English Pilgrims at Plymouth and to introduce them to the Wampanoag chief Massasoit.
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grand sachem of the Wampanoag Indians.
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first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, elected 12 times in the 18 annual elections held between his arrival and death; had the foresight to demand that the company government and charter be moved to America from England.
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Baby born on the Mayflower.
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an American writer of the nineteenth century who imagined how North American must have looked centuries before Europeans arrives.
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