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11 Cards in this Set
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Jacques Cartier
(Jacques is French for Jack) |
France
Explored the St. Lawrence River and Canada (C for Cartier) |
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Bartholomew Dias
dis explorer sailed from a port with good hopes |
Portugal
First one to sail around the tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope) |
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Sieur de La Salle
"La" is short for Louisiana |
France
Traveled from Canada down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico (also named Louisiana) |
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Vasco da Gama
da, I want to sale from a port with good hopes to reach Asia |
Portugal
sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Asia |
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Henry Hudson
King "Henry" of England |
England
explored the HUDSON Bay and strait and New York State |
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Giovanni Verrazano
"gee, even though he was Italian the French sponsored him because he showed no Fear" |
France
Explored Cafe Fear, NC to Maine |
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John Cabot
"John the sailed NEW the Canadian Coast" |
England
Explored along the Canadian Coast; also sailed to Newfoundland |
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Hernando de Soto
"Soto from Spain explores the Sunshine state" |
Spain
crossed Mississippi and he was the first European to explore the SE region and Florida |
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Sir Francis Drake
"Sir Drake was second" |
England
2nd person to circumnavigate the world |
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Hernando de Cortes
"Cortes the conquerer" |
found Mexico and he conquered the Aztecs
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James Cook
"no love for the islands" |
England
went out to determine the size of the universe, explored/mapped Australia, killed on <3's Day in Hawaii |
