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The Explorers of the Americas
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09/30/2012

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Henry the Navigator
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sent ships to the Azores, Canary Islands,and west coast of Africa.
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Bartholomeau Dias
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sailed around the tip of Southern Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488
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Vasco de Gama
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sailed around Africa and across the Indian Ocean,reaching India inin 1498.
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Christopher Columbus
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reached the Bahamas in 1492; went ashore on small island,named it San Salvador.
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Pedro Cabral
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sailed across the Atlantic Ocean,landed on the coast of Brazil in 1500
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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crossed the mountains in Panama in 1513 and discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
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discovered strait around southern tip of South America in 1520; some of crew completed first circumnavigation of globe.
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Hernán Cortès
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landed in Mexico in 1519,completed conquest of Aztec in 1521.
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Francisco Pizzaro
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arrived in Peru in 1530,completed the conquest of the Inca by 1535.
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Juan Ponce de León
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landed in Florida in 1513 hoping to find "fountain of youth"
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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
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led expedition threough Nothern Mexico,Arizona,and New Mexico in search of fabled seven cities of gold; reached Zuni,town of Cibola in 1540.
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John Cabot
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landed in Newfoundland in 1497
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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explored coast from present-day Nova Scotia to the Carolinas in 1524.
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Henry Hudson
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discovered and sailed up the Hudson River in 1609.
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Hernando de Soto
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led three-year expedition through southeastern United States; crossed Mississippi River in 1541
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