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22 Cards in this Set
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Diaz
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Found Cape of Good Hope
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De Gama
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Went around the tip of Africa
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Cabral
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discovered Brazil
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Columbus
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Discovered America
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Balboa
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Discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Ponce de Leon
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Established St. Augustine and discovered Florida
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Cortez
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Encountered and conquered the Aztecs
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Magellan
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Circumnavigated the globe (died on the way)
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Fracisco Coronado
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Explored the American Southwest
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Hernando De Soto
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Discovers the Mississippi
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John Cabot
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Found Newfoundland and Labador
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Drake
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Second person to circumnavigate the globe (survived the trip)
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Davis
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Charted the Arctic waters
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Verrazano
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Discovered the New York Harbor (eaten by cannibals in a later expidition)
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Cartier
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Discovered St Laurence River
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Champlain
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Discovered Qubec and Montreal
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La Salle
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Claimed 1/3 of the U.S. (things around and connected the Mississippi)
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Marguette & Joliet
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Established fur trade in St Louis and Detroit
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Henry Hudson
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Discovered the Hudson River and Bay (overthrowned by crew and disapppeared)
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Found the New World and was to have it named after him (America)
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Vikings
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Earliest known Europeans to explore America (around A.D. 1000)
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Chinese
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Poissibly landed in the Americas before the Vikings (pre-1000)
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