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20 Cards in this Set
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Amundsen, Roald |
1872-1928, Norwegian first to reach the South Pole and fly over the North Pole |
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Balboa, Vasco Núñez de |
1475-1517, Spanish Pacific Ocean |
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Cabot, John |
1450-1498, English explored North America |
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Cartier, Jacques |
1491-1557, French St. Lawrence river region |
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Columbus, Christopher |
1451-1557, Italian/Spanish discovery of the New World |
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Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de |
1510-1554, Spanish mythical city of Cibola, SW region of the US |
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Cortes, Hernando |
1485-1547, Spanish Mexico, Aztec nation |
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de Soto, Hernando |
1500-1542, Spanish Cuba, Florida, SE region of the US |
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Diaz, Bartolomeu |
1450-1500, Portuguese Cape of Good Hope |
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Drake, Sir Francis |
1540-1596, British circumnavigated the globe; helped defeat Spanish Armada |
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Hudson, Henry |
d. 1611, British Budson River, Hudson Bay area |
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Magellan, Ferdinand |
1480-1521, Portuguese first to sail around the world |
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Marquette, Jacques |
1637-1675, French discovered Mississippi |
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Peary, Robert E. |
1856-1920, American North Pole (disputed claim; prior claim of Fred Cook) |
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Polo, Marco |
1254-1324, Italian explored China and Asia |
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Ponce de Leon, Juan |
1460-1521, Spanish first European explorer in Florida |
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Raleigh, Sir Walter |
1552-1618, British eastern coast of the US |
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Scott, Robert |
1868-1912, British Antarctica, South Pole (prior claim of Amundsen) |
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Vasquez de Coronado, Francisco |
1510-1554, Spanish first European to explore Arizona and New Mexico |
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Vespucci, Amerigo |
1454-1521, Italian America was named after him; first to realize that the Americas were a different continent than Asia |
