People(Global Age- Kligman)
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clairebear123 on February 9, 2010
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Spanish | English |
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 Ferdinand Magellan | was given credit as the first person to circumnavigate around the world. |
| Vasco de Gama | Was Portuguese, was the first person to make it to the west indies. |
| Bartholomew Dias | was the first person to make it to the tip of south africa, the Cape of Good Hope. |
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for spain, was looking for a sea route to asia but, found a new world. Given credit for finding america but didn't know he had found it. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America is named after him because he went to america and discovered it wasn't asia and recorded all his findings |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the incas and took over what is today, peru |
| Herman Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the aztecs and took over what is today mexico |
| Jacques Cartier | attempted to find the northwest passage but instead discovered the Saint Lawrence River |
| John Cabot | attempted to find the northwest passage but instead found Newfoundland and claimed it for england |
| Henry Hudson | attempted to find the northwest passage but instead found Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Straight. (theses are in what is today new york and canada) |
| Pedro Cabral | found Brazil and claimed it for Portuguese. this is the only land that Portugal has in south america. |
| Henry "The Navigator" | Built a school for navigation, remembered for his navigation of the South African Coast. |
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