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Important Historical People
Peopl you shlould know
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History
11th Grade
03/31/2012

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Leif Ericksson
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Norse seaman in the eleventh-century who saw parts of the new World on his voyages
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Promoted Portuguese Exploration in the late 1400's
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Vasco da Gama
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First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India
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Amerigo Vespucci
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described the New World and helped popularize the idea that the Americas were new continents
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Vasco de Balboa
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The First European to see the Pacific Ocean
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Hernando Cortes
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A Spanish conquistador who destroyed most of the Aztec civilization exposing them to smallpox and killing their leader Montezuma
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Montezuma
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The Aztec emperor killed by Hernando Cortes
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Francisco Pizarro
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Conquered h Incas in Peru and opened the way for other Spanish advances into South America
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John Calvin
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Preached the idea that God had already chosen who would go to heaven (Calvinism)
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Lord DE LA Warr
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Jamestown's First Governor
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Lead a rebellion (Bacon's Rebellion) against the Virginia colony in protest of the governor doing nothing to stop the Indian attacks on the back country men
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Rodger Williams
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A young minister who believed in reigious tolerance, that the colonies should have no connection to the church of England, and that the land was the natives. He started the Colony on Rhode Island
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Anne Hutchinson
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A women who did not agree with the idea of "elect"and challenged the prevailing assumption about proper role of women in Puritan Society. She was one of the first feminists.
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