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GIOVANNI DA VERRAZANO |
Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and New foundland, including New York in harbor 1524. The Verrazano-narrows Bridge was named after him. |
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MARTIN FROBISHER |
.discovered Labrador and what is now Frobisher Bay .in the 1550's he explored Africa's northwest coast.Particulary Guinea in 1553 and 1554 .became an Elizabethan Privateer, or lawful Pirate .in 1560 he gained a reputation for preying on French trading vessels in the waters of Guinea |
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HENRY HUDSON |
.in 1608 he discovered the river that now bears his name. .in his ship the "half Moon", Husdon sailed north on the hudson River as far as the site of the present day Ablany, New York. .disovered a huge body of water now called the Hudson Bay .his crew members sent him adrift |
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JACQUES CARTIER |
.discovered a mountain peak that he names Mont-Royal .explored and desrcibed the Gulf of St.Lawrence and the shores of the sait Lawrence river .explored parts of Newfoundland, the areas known as the Canadian Atlantic Provinces |
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FRANCISCO PIZARRO |
.led an army into the Inca empire capital Cuzco, Peru, with intentions to rule .in 1535 he founded his own capital of Lima .Pizarro soon controlled most of the Inca Empire . later the spanish arrested and executed the Inca ruler |
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VASCO NÚÑEZ DE BALBOA |
.he heard stories of the"great waters" beyond the mountains of Panama in Central America .he led an expedition westward .there in 1513, Balboa found a vast body of water(the Pacific Ocean) .he claimed the ocean and lands along it for Spain |
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PEDRO CABRAL |
.Pedro was a Portuguese explorer .was the first European to see Brazil on April 22, 1500 .Cabral's patron was king Manuel I of Portugal .the king of Portugal, senthim on an expedition to India |
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AMERIGO VESPUCCI |
.in 1502 Amerigo Vespucci sailed along South America's coast .in honor f Amerigo Vespucci European georaphers called the continent America . Vespucci concluded that the South America was a continent, not a part of Asia |
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HERNANN CORTES |
.in 1519 Hernan Cortes landed on the east coast of present day Mexico .within two years, cortes conquered the Aztec Empire that had ruled the region |
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS |
.on august 3,1419, columbus set out from Palos Spain .on October 12,1492 he landed in the bahamas . he claimedthe land for Spain .he thought he arrived in the East Indies but actually arrived in the Carribean Islands .Clumbus made three more voyages to America
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