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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Leif Erikson | Viking explorer who sailed from Greenland to North America in the AD 1000s |
| Marco Polo | Explorer from Venice who spent many years in Asia in the late 1200's. He wrote a book about his travels that gave information about Asia. |
| Bartholomue Diaz | Portugese navigator who in 1488 became the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco Da Gama | Portugese navigator who sailed from Europe around the southern tip of Africa and onto Asia in 1497 - 1498 |
| Prince Henry | 1500 started a navegation school |
| Samuel De Champlain | 1567 - 1635. French explorer who founded the first settlement at Quebec, Canada |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian born Spanish explorer who in 1492 sailed west from Spain and thought he had reached Asia but had actually reached islands near the Americas lands that were unknown to Europeans |
| Ponce De Leon | Spanish explorer who landed on the North American mainland in 1513 in what is now Florida |
| Hernando De Soto | Spanish explorer who led an expedition into what today is the southeastern United States |
| Hernando Cortez | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronando | Spanish explorer who led an expedition from Mexico City into what is now called the southwestern United States in search of the seven cities of gold |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer who made several voyages from Europe to what many peope thought was Asia. He determined that he had landed on another continent which was later called America in his honor |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire |
| Jaques Chartier | French explorer who sailed up the St. Lawrence river and began a fur trading business with the Hurons |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Explorer who in 1513 became the first European to reach the western coast of America proving to the Europeans that the Americas were separate from Asia |
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