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23 Cards in this Set
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Leif Eriksson
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1000 AD
Greenland (Scandanavia) first to Americas |
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Bartolomeu Dias
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1488 AD
Portugal first to tip of Africa, Cape of Good Hope |
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Vasco da Gama
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1497 AD
Portugal first to go around Africa to India and Asia |
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Christopher Columbus
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1492 AD
Spain (from Italy) first to start trade with Americas |
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Amerigo Vespucci
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1501 AD
Spain first to sail to South America |
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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
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1513 AD
Spain first found Pacific Ocean from Panama |
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Ferdinand Magellan
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1519 AD
Portugal first to sail around the world |
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Erik the Red
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974 AD
Scandinavia first settlement in Greenland |
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Hernán Cortés
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1519 AD
Spain conquered Aztecs |
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Francisco Pizarro
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1534 AD
Spain conquered Incas |
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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1508 AD
Spain conquered Puerto Rico and found Florida |
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Hernando de Soto
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1539 AD
Spain traveled through Southeast US |
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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1528 AD
Spain explored Southwest North America |
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Pánfilo de Narváez
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1528 AD
Spain explored Southwest North America |
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Estevanico
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1536 AD
Spain (Morocco) guide expedition in Southwest |
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
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1540 AD
Spain explored Southwest as far as Kansas |
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John Cabot
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1497 AD
England (Italy) explored Canada |
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Giovanni Da Verrazano
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1524 AD
France (Italy) explore North Carolina to Maine |
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Jacques Cartier
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1534 AD
France explored St. Lawrence River |
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Henry Hudson
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1609 AD
Netherlands explored New York area and Hudson Bay |
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Samuel de Champlain
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1604 AD
France detailed explorations of St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes |
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Louis Jolliet
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1673 AD
France search for Mississippi River |
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René-Robert de La Salle
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1682 AD
France followed the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico |
