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Henry was one of the first originators of the Age of discovery and the Atlantic Slave trade.
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Muslims were taking control over the trade routes during that era and this later became known as the Age of Exploration.
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Bartholomeu Dias was one of the first Portuguese explorers to look for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
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Christoper Columbus was an explorer that sailed the voyage to open the Americans to the European colonization.
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John Cabot was an British explorer to went on a voyage to claim land in Canada, mistaking it for Asia.
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Amerigo Vespucci was a man who went on a voyage thinking he discovered new continents but when he really didn't.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was one of the first European explorers to look at the Pacific Ocean.
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He was a governor searching to explore one of the nearby island which was later known as Puerto Rico.
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Hernandez Cortez was a Spanish conquistador who set out to find the new world at age 19.
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Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer who discovered a route we now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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Francisco Pizzaro was an explorer who discovered Pacific Ocean and found Peru.
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Hernando de Soto went out to explorer when he was only 14 and he was one of the first European to discover Mississippi river.
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Jacques Cartier discovered a new route to Asia and went out on a expedition to seek gold.
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Francisco Coronado was a Spanish explorer who led a huge expedition up towards Mexico western coast.
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Sir Francis Drake was a man who liked piracy and explored the coast later on his journey.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was a English explorer who made a colony near Roanoke island and he studied at Oxford.
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Jacques Marquette was a man who discovered Mississippi River on his voyage in the mid 1600's.
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Rene-Robert de La Salle went to explore an island of Montreal which was unfortunately his last expedition which costed him his life.
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Louis Jollies made expeditions to the Hudson bay and Labrador coast on his voyage.
