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15 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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was sponsored by the Spanish, landed in San Salvador (not American mainland), did this in 1492
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Vasco de Balboa
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1513) First to encounter Panama and Pacific Ocean from the East side
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Ponce de Leon
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(1513) Left Puerto Rico and went on a voyage to find the “Fountain of Youth” and gold; touched Florida, Governor of Puerto Rico
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Ferdinand Magellan
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First to circumnavigate the world (1519-1521)
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Hernando Cortes
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(1521) Led an army into the American Mainland/ He was looking for new lands for Spain to claim (central Mexico- Aztecs)
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Francisco Pizarro:
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(1535) Landed in Equator/ went to Peru/ encountered the Incas!
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Prince Henry the Navigator:
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Sponsored the first English voyage
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John Cabot
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Sailed under the British flag (1497) English/ First to hit American mainland (Maine)/ in search of Northwest Passage
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Amerigo Vespucci:
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(1507) Spaniard/ Man America was named after/ landed on Brazil/ discovered that North America and South America were not part of Asia
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Henry Hudson
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(1607) Dutch, Hundson River Valley
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Giovanni Verrazano
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(1524) French, Carolinas and NY Harbor
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Samuel de Champlain
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(1604) French, Traveled to Quebec then to NY
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Northwest Passage
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A water route linking the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean (England with Asia)
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Aztecs
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warlike people of central Mexico/ 5 million in empire/ advanced gov’t
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Incas
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of Peru/ conquered native people/ assimilated the peoples’ they conquered culture into their own
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