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10 Cards in this Set
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John Cabot
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- Italian mariner
- settled and sailed in England - King Henry 7 gave him support - sailed to N. America to search for a westward passage to the Orient - secured a large part of N. Am. for England |
Son named Sebastian
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Sebastian Cabot
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- John Cabot's son
- one of the most accomplished cartographers of his time - first explorer to search for the NW Passage to the Orient - sailed for Spain - explored parts of S. Am. |
Father
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Samuel de Champlain
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- French explorer, navigator, and geographer of N. Am.
- founder of Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in N. Am. in 1608 - discovered Lake Champlain - his writings and maps were accurate of the geography of N. Am. |
Lake
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Jacques Cartier
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- discovered the Saint Lawrence river
- explored what is now present day Montreal - searched for a NW Passage |
J(acques) Lawrence. (J(ennifer) Law(rence))
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Christopher Columbus
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- sailed under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella for Spain
- explored uncharted seas in the west - 4 voyages, discovered: Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, and Central and S. Am. - searched for a passage to the Orient by going west |
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James Cook
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- English naval officer, surveyor, and explorer
- 1768: first famous voyage to observe the Venus eclipse and to determine the existence of a southern continent - 1772: second voyage to search for the fabled southern continent, but found several pacific islands - 1776: final voyage, he sailed in the Pacific, charting the coast of N. Am. from Oregon to the Bering Strait and searched for the NW Passage in higher latitudes - killed in Hawaii in 1779 - first sea captain to prevent the spread of scurvy on ship - first to carry a chronometer |
3 voyages
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Bartolomeu Dias
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- Portuguese navigator
- discovered (and probs named) the Cape of Good Hope - set the stage for explorers after his to travel to India by sea |
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Francis Drake
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- second explorer to circumnavigate the globe
- successful pirate - helped break the Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of key sea routes - first Englishman to explore the Pacific - died from dysentery |
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Eric the Red
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- Norse chieftain
- discovered Greenland in 982 ad - led colonists there in 986 ad - the colony lasted 4-5 centuries |
RED and GREENland (Christmas colors)
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Liefr Eiriksson
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- Norse discoverer of America
- son of Eric the Red - was possibly blown off course and landed in present day Newfoundland/ New England in 1000 ad |
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